Word: tarawa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...record was impressive. He commanded the aircraft carrier Wasp until she was shot out from beneath him in the Solomons in 1942. During the final years of the war he was Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz' "brain"; he helped plan the great sweep across the Pacific from Tarawa to Okinawa...
TIME'S Robert Sherrod, veteran of New Guinea, Attu, Tarawa, Saipan and Iwo Jima, remembers that these stories had as much to do with TIME'S popularity among overseas servicemen as the action reports. Says Sherrod...
Belsen Concentration Camp ("not a prisoner"), Rome (wartime), Shanghai and the North China coast, Kunming, Calcutta, Tokyo (wartime), "parts of the Marshalls, Gilberts and Marianas," Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Tarawa...
...could still see the island. Luckily the Japanese did not see them. On the second night there was a storm, and the biggest canoe, which had three natives in it, was blown away and they never saw it again. The winds were bad and they could not get to Tarawa. Instead they were blown westward toward the Solomon Islands...
...very weak and hungry, and nearly dead, but the natives of Ninigo looked after him until an Australian district officer came and took him to a hospital on a big island called Manus. Afterwards, Nabetari came to Tarawa by airplane...