Word: tarawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believe the Marshalls, Carolines, Marianas, Philippines and Jap islands will be easier because of Tarawa. Our period of blind refusal to learn, so exasperating early in the war, has all but passed. We have learned to learn faster...
...second day of the Marines' landing, while the struggle for Tarawa was still nip-&-tuck, two seasoned British Empire servants had come ashore: Lieut. Colonel Vivian Fox-Strangways, India-born, Africa-trained, Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony; and Major Francis G. I. Holland, Director of Education among the 27,000 Gilbertese. In his kit Major Holland carried a British flag...
...correspondents had gone through their toughest battle of the Pacific war-Tarawa. When they had written all their dispatches, TIME'S Robert Sherrod sat down and wrote one more...
...hauled himself into it, he found only dead marines there. He stayed with the dead all night. Next morning he was close to being shot for a Jap: during the night the enemy had swum to disabled landing craft and were using them as machine-gun nests. Not until Tarawa's third day did Bundy finally get ashore...
...taking a shower to rid himself of the putrid smell of the dead, when the ship unexpectedly pulled out. He finally got a message to Rear Admiral Howard Kingman, a battleship division commander, who sent a catapult plane. It took Hippie's stories, a day late, back to Tarawa, whence they were planed to Pearl Harbor for radioing...