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...TARAWA: THE STORY OF A BATTLE-Robert Sherrod-Duell, Sloan & Pearce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hard Facts | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...troop transport going into Tarawa: Ladies' Day, with Patsy Kelly, Eddie Albert, Lupe Velez, Max Baer. Newsreel: capsizing of the Normandie, Manpower Boss Paul McNutt addressing the 1942 American Legion convention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MORALE: Better Movies Overseas? | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

Harry Hill's ground forces were fewer than had been used either on Tarawa or Kwajalein-less than two regiments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: 379-Mile Hop | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

Betio Island, white and wasted at the end of a palmy green bay, was more than ever a base of war. But elsewhere in the Tarawa Atoll the sturdy brown Gilbertese had picked up again an old, familiar thread of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: By Tarawa's Lamplight | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

...mats, the villagers watched, chanted, beat out rhythms on packing boxes, joined the stylized, immemorial South Sea steps. The tempo rose to crescendo. Then beyond the fringe of lamplight sounded whistles of applause. But these were native whistlers, not American gate-crashers. For U.S. troops the villages of British Tarawa are out of bounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: By Tarawa's Lamplight | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

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