Word: tarawa
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...Dawn broke clear on a calm sea black with ships: 800 craft under Vice Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, the high-domed, hard-driving conqueror of Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Tarawa, Kwajalein and Saipan. With Turner on the bridge of his command ship was Lieut. General Holland M. ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, boss of the Fleet Marine Force. Loaded on the surrounding transports were the men of Major General Harry Schmidt's V Amphibious Corps: the 4th and 5th Marine Divisions...
Information. U.S. readers wanted to be informed as well as entertained. War books continued in strong demand, with such human-interest and eyewitness accounts as Ernie Pyle's Here Is Your War and Brave Men, and Robert Sherrod's Tarawa, in the lead...
...Guadalcanal bull-voiced Jim Crowe contributed his bit to Marine folklore: leading a charge against the dug-in Japs, he yelled: "Get out of those foxholes, men, you'll never get the Purple Heart layin' there!" Jim Crowe lasted through Tarawa before he got his Purple Heart, added it to his Silver Star (Guadalcanal), Navy Cross (Tarawa) and his Good Conduct medal (four enlistments) which he says he prizes most...
...German guns out of action with grenades and flamethrowers. Four days later the Admiralty disclosed that of 25 gunships all but five had been lost. Many ordinary troop-landing craft had also been destroyed and casualties were "severe." Westkapelle would go down in history with Dieppe and Tarawa...
Pale, intent men lay on white cots in the San Diego Naval Hospital last week listening with radio headsets to the news from the Pacific. They were casualties of Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan and Palau, and they understood the cost of victory. They were armless, legless, diseased, blind. They knew that more would join them...