Word: tarawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while its news is still fresh we are printing one edition in Australia for General MacArthur's men and another edition in Honolulu for our soldiers and sailors in the Central Pacific. (Three hundred copies were flown into the Gilberts on schedule the Monday after the battle on Tarawa.) There is another edition in Iran-and in addition something like a quarter of a million copies of TIME's less-than-an-ounce "Pony" are being rushed from this country to our troops on other fronts all over the world...
Lieut, (j.g.) Jay Odell, of St. Paul, was a Naval air liaison officer on Tarawa. The battalion he landed with lost nearly all its staff, so Odell served as Operations officer for a Marine battalion. Afterwards, back in Honolulu, he told this story...
...returned from Tarawa on a transport which brought out many wounded. The Marine officer in the bunk below me said that first night, 'Can you see?' I said yes, I could see. He said, 'I can't see-I will never see again...
...ranging Liberators of Major General Willis Kale's Seventh Air Force struck from runways somewhere in the Central Pacific; they may have used Tarawa's air strip. The bomb doses were small (15 to 40 tons in two of four Army raids). Resistance was light: 20 Zeros appeared over Mili atoll, tried (and failed) to slap the raiders with anti-bomber bombs dropped from above in the German manner. In smaller force, Navy patrol bombers snooped the islands. But the blow that really caught the Japs in the Marshalls with their kimonos off, was a pile-driving carrier...
Admiral Pownall's forces had still more business. From the Marshalls they headed for Nauru, the British phosphate island seized by the Japs in early 1942. There, Tarawa to Truk, the Jap Pearl Harbor, the American fleet, including battleships, shelled and bombed the enemy's airdrome and shore defenses. The score: ten Jap planes destroyed; two U.S. planes lost, one U.S. destroyer damaged by shore batteries...