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...heroism yes, but also profound sadness; for World War II was not a good war. From North Africa to Salerno, from Normandy to the Bulge to Berlin, an entire continent lost to fascism had to be taken back, village by village, hill by hill. And further eastward, from Tarawa to Okinawa, the death struggle for Asia was an assault against dug-in positions, surmounted only by unbelievable courage at unbearable loss...
...fighting in the central Pacific, some 20,000 U.S. soldiers died. On Saipan, Japanese women and children hurled themselves from cliffs rather than submit to the American invaders. Most Japanese soldiers there either died fighting or took their own lives: 27,040 corpses were found. The toll from Tarawa--984 U.S. Marines and 29 Navy men killed in just 76 hours of fighting--caused normally self-censoring correspondents to send home horror stories that nearly triggered a congressional investigation. All of February 1945 saw street fighting in Manila between American soldiers and renegade Japanese troops intent on turning the Philippine...
...during the Korean War, when General Douglas MacArthur chose them for the Inchon landing. Marine strategists insist that the Corps retains a vital role in modern warfare. Lieut. General Alfred Gray, who commands the Fleet Marine Force (Atlantic), admits, "You'll never see staged assaults like Iwo Jima or Tarawa again." But Gray, who is thought to be one of the leading candidates to succeed Marine Commandant P.X. Kelley, adds, "Our mission is sustained power projection. For power to be sustained, it must come from...
Most veterans of World War II remember the South Pacific island group of Kiribati by its British name, the Gilbert Islands, whose capital of Tarawa was the scene of bloody fighting between Americans and the Japanese. Now Kiribati (pronounced kir-ibass) has become a micro-arena of the cold...
DIED. General David M. Shoup, 78, Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps from 1960 to 1963; of heart disease; in Alexandria, Va. During World War II, he won the Medal of Honor for his bravery during the battle of Tarawa, one of the bloodiest of the Pacific...