Word: tarawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Landing in Tarawa...
Sirs: I believe that Robert Sherrod's story of Tarawa Island capture in your Dec. 6 issue is some of the finest on-the-spot reporting I have ever read. . . Sherrod portrayed very graphically the unquenchable spirit of our Marines. We can't be beat with a spirit like that...
...lieutenant commander when the fleet sallied out to take the Gilberts last month. Butch O'Hare "hellcatted" the island; he was the first to bring a carrier plane down on conquered Tarawa. A few nights later, off the Marshalls, Jap torpedo planes came over his flat-top again. Butch led the fighters from the deck. Flares shredded the darkness. "You take the side you want," he radiophoned his wingman. "I'll take the port," answered the wingman. "Roger!" said Butch. Tracers glowed around his plane. He sheered off, brought down one Jap, his ninth, then dropped into...
...lessons of Tarawa were written into bills authorizing more landing craft, which were rushed through Congress last week. The Navy's landing-craft program now totals 80,000, from the huge (450 ft.) dock ships to rubber rafts. Marines were especially glad to see that there were some "Alligators" on the program...
...Tarawa, the Marines wished they had more of them. Last week the Navy agreed a "substantial proportion" of the new landing-craft construction will be LVTs...