Word: tarawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...judgments on the countless bitter controversies which studded the Pacific war (Was the cost of Tarawa inevitable? Was it necessary to conquer Iwo?), he is determinedly fair. As a historian, his concern is more with events themselves than with the exploits of individual heroes. But he has included his estimates of the men who bossed the top Pacific commands: Nimitz, Spruance, Mitscher, Halsey. He has also included some of the best of the old Pacific war sagas. One of them: 18 Lightnings racing out from Guadalcanal's Henderson Field to bushwhack Admiral Yamamoto in the air over Jap-held...
TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod witnessed the faces of men fighting and dying on New Guinea, Attu, Saipan, Tarawa, Iwo and Okinawa. Last week he beheld what he described as "the most tragic face I have seen in the war." The place was Batavia's Koningsplein Railway Station. The face was that of a woman-one of 156 weary Dutch internees detraining after a 52-hour trip across the length of Java from Malang. Cabled Sherrod...
Marines who had seen battalions melt at Tarawa and Iwo Jima might tell...
...With the Marines at Tarawa, a combat film which is almost as brief, terrible and final as a jump off a skyscraper...
...very different kind of book on the same general subject is Robert Sherrod's On to Westward. As a TIME correspondent, Sherrod followed the war in the Central Pacific from Tarawa to Okinawa. The tragic Tarawa victory he described in a superb piece of war reporting, Tarawa (TIME, March 13, 1944). In On to Westward he reports the road to victory from Saipan to Okinawa. This book is a memorable day-to-day account of the high points-Saipan, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, the Ryukyus-in the bitter 3,500-mile battle that led from Tarawa to Tokyo...