Word: tarawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...books is Robert Sherrod's Tarawa: The Story of a Battle...
...most truthful accounts of action in this war-and one of the most vivid pieces of writing on record." "About as near as you can get, in an armchair, to being in the midst of battle," said The Nation. And Foster Hailey wrote in the New York Times that Tarawa is "a superlative job of reporting, obviously written at white heat while the sounds of Betio still rang in Sherrod's ears and the smell of it still hung in his nostrils...
...course these tributes to the realism of Sherrod's reporting are hardly surprising, for he actually did write large parts of Tarawa while under fire with our Marines on that bloody beachhead-crouching behind the seawall and putting down on paper from minute to minute everything he saw and heard and felt, determined that the least he could do for the men battling around him was to record for all time a true picture of how they dared and died. All through the first day on that "island of 5,000 dead" he expected he too would soon...
Last-the Infantry. Yet the fact that there was still fighting to be done did not mean that the massive bombardment had been a failure. Cassino had simply added one more lesson to the established lessons of Verdun, of Stalingrad, of Tarawa. No bombardment can totally eliminate a foe skilled and nervy enough to wait it out. The infantryman must write the final score...
...Marine Corps, Warner Bros, has given this film fine reticence of sound effect and commentary. The very rawness of the color helps to give a rawer reality to some of the most real things ever fixed by a camera. But after all its fierceness With the Marines at Tarawa ends quietly, with one of the most powerful shots it records. The marines are trooping back from battle. They march toward the camera. One young fellow on the sidelines is smiling, almost with jubilation. There are no other smiles. One gaunt man, his face drawn with sleeplessness and a sense...