Word: tarawa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tile manufacturer, Schweiker grew up in the tiny southeastern Pennsylvania town of Worcester. His family is Pennsylvania Dutch and belongs to the small (2,600 members) Central Schwenkfelder Church, a Protestant sect with origins in Silesia. At 17, he enlisted in the Navy and served on the carrier Tarawa in World War II, then returned to Pennsylvania. After two years at Slippery Rock State College, he transferred to Penn State, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He joined his father's business, eventually becoming vice president for sales...
Died. Lieut. General Julian Constable Smith, 90, durable Marine commander; in Arlington, Va. Smith fought his country's battles from the occupation of Veracruz in 1914 through World War II. He led the corps' 2nd Division in the bloody conquest of Tarawa in 1943 against suicidal Japanese resistance, coming ashore under fire at the height of the fighting because "it was my job to be on the beach. The men of my division had been through hell and they were entitled to the presence of their commanding officer...
...TIME Essay [Aug. 10] tends to underestimate the tenacity of the Japanese by applying Occidental standards of defeat to the Oriental principles of war. Tarawa, with its six survivors of 4,000; Okinawa, with its kamikaze, bear true testimony to the prevalent fanaticism...