Word: tarawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tarawa Boom-De-Ay. From Brooklyn, N.Y., a radio program publicizing the Marine Corps received an appreciative letter: "I have used the product advertised on your program for years and have been highly satisfied with the results. Keep up the good work...
...extraordinarily brilliant seizure of Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshalls came as great good news to Americans, brooding ever since Tarawa over the high casualties there...
...Vehement protests I am receiving against our use of flame throwers do not indicate an understanding of the meaning of our dead on the beaches of Tarawa...
...Tojo told his nation that "there is only a hair's breadth between victory and defeat," warned that Japan must pay a high price for victory: a national service law, all-out production of ships and planes, increased taxes, spiritual mobilization on the frenzied Yamato pattern exhibited at Tarawa, Makin, Attu...
...masses of coral sand, large enough to support airfields and artillery installations. Hot and waterless, the Marshalls lie under the equatorial sun and dead men begin to stink very promptly. Flat and naked, the Marshall atolls have no natural protection, but how well they are fortified was indicated at Tarawa...