Word: tarawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the Marines at Tarawa (U.S. M.C.; edited by Warner Bros.; distributed by Universal) is war in the least expurgated form most U.S. cinemaddicts are likely to see. It has long been a question how much battle experience should be communicated to civilians. With the Marines at Tarawa should settle the question once for all. Some things have been left out (in battle the camera cannot be everywhere). And there is no shot of any American being wounded or killed. Nevertheless, the picture's 19 minutes of unflagging pity, terror and intense action make a film whose power...
...TARAWA: THE STORY OF A BATTLE-Robert Sherrod-Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
Between the water and the sea wall on Tarawa atoll, there was 20 feet of sand and brown-green coral; those 20 feet (for a distance of about 100 yards) were the U.S. beachhead. With the 3,000 Marines, dead and alive, on that tiny beachhead was TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod, who went ashore with the first waves. Notebook in hand, Sherrod crouched behind the sea wall and jotted down notes for a notable close...
...followed so many charges that by the third day even the Japs knew that they were licked. The last gasp was a desperate "Banzai" attack; the Japs charged, screaming "Marine, you die!" and "Japanese drink Marine's blood!" The Marines' line wavered, then held. By next day Tarawa...
Readers will find Tarawa the work of a crack reporter, the most vivid book on the Pacific war since Ira Wolfert's Torpedo 8. Many will find it stomach-turning in its horrifying depiction of battle. That was Author Sherrod's prime objective: "Our information services [have] failed to impress the people with the hard facts of war. . . . There is no easy way to win. . . . [There will] be many other bigger and bloodier Tarawas...