Word: tarawa
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Such a large and complex undertaking could hardly hope to have the extraordinary intensity of shorter, more single-focused films like San Pietro and Tarawa. But it is made, all the same, with force and fervor and intelligence. It is the richest single record of the war and one of its greatest pictures...
...home office are themselves fresh from the fronts #151; and many of the week-to-week cables from our correspondents now in the Pacific are being written into TIME by Bob Sherrod, perhaps the most shot-at correspondent of the whole Pacific war -on New Guinea and Attu, Tarawa and Saipan, Iwo Jima and Okinawa...
November: Nimitz' march across the Central Pacific began with the invasion of Tarawa and Makin...
...Santa Fe was at Wake Island, Bougainville, Tarawa, Kwajalein, Truk, Palau, Yap, Hollandia, Wakde, Samar, Ponape, Pagan, Guam, the Philippines, Okinawa, Formosa. She sank a destroyer in the Bonins last August, and got four cargo ships off Mindanao, 2,000 miles to the southwest, in September...
...Francisco, Navy Secretary James Forrestal held a planning session with Fleet Admirals King and Nimitz. Also present was shy, calculating Admiral Raymond Ames Spruance, commander of the Fifth Fleet, which has conducted most big Pacific amphibious operations in the sweep westward from Tarawa...