Word: tarawa
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...Tarawa (November 1943), the naval bombardment was not accurate or heavy enough; preliminary air bombing was poorly executed; amphibious tractors were too few, and unarmored. So the 2nd Marine Division had to wade through 500 yards of Japanese machine-gun fire to the bloodiest beachhead in the Corps' 176-year history. This they did. Morison gives the back of his hand to General Holland Smith, who says of his own troops' victory: "Tarawa was a mistake," claiming that the Marshalls should have been invaded first...
...Bayonne, N.J., with appropriate ruffles and flourishes, Connecticut's handsome Governor John Lodge was piped aboard the 33,000-ton carrier Tarawa, officially "adopted" the ship in the name of his state,* and announced that a Citizens' Committee had been set up to play the part of friends to the ship's officers and crew...
...course, it has occasional relapses. People make oblique references to the Lieutenant's heroic conduct at the "Canal" and about the guy "he pulled out of the drink at Tarawa." But the Lieutenant is too tough to own up to these exploits; in addition, he has a case of psychological migraine which would put a lesser man back in street clothes. The Lieutenant is the hero, and there is not a man in the audience who would not be proud to serve under...
...Aerial Blue. Along the stages of the Allied road to victory lay the Normandy beaches, the high, frowning bluffs of Monte Cassino, the coral reefs of Tarawa, the aerial blue over the sea approaches to Japan, with the Kamikazes coming in. Picture History has gathered in the look of it all. There are individual faces, too-sometimes composed, more often starkly candid-of the men of all armies and all ranks. There is the home front, with its crucibles and assembly lines, its boom towns and bond drives...
...even Harry Truman could say such things-and in writing-could think of nothing to do at the moment but cluck, "Shocking" . . . "Unfortunate." Iowa's Hickenlooper, when he got his breath, declaimed: "I know that the spirits of heroes from the Halls of Montezuma, from Chateau-Thierry and Tarawa . . . will be aroused...