Word: tarawa
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Once again, as I had seen them do on Attu and Tarawa, these strange little men had swept forward in a last hopeless, noisy, assault. The pattern was the same, only this time it was bigger. More than 3,000 of these mad, unreasoning, half-human creatures joined in it-the count may go as high as 5,000 by the time we have counted all their rotting bodies...
Carrier-based again, Air Group Twelve smashed at Rabaul, fought in the Gilbert Islands (Tarawa) invasion, roved the Marshalls for 25 days, blasted...
...Saipan, at least two divisions of U.S. marines, plus Army infantry, tore into the bloodiest Pacific fighting since Tarawa. The Navy's guns had admirably covered their landings, but the island was too mountainous for either naval guns or air bombing to decide the inland fighting...
Before the Marines and Army infantrymen had well secured their toehold on Saipan, in the Marianas, TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod, veteran of Attu and Tarawa, was ashore with them. He radioed...
...have no direct word from Bob Sherrod on Saipan. Here's hoping he is not having as tough a time as he did on the beaches of Tarawa...