Word: tarawa
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...Tarawa Boom-De-Ay. From Brooklyn, N.Y., a radio program publicizing the Marine Corps received an appreciative letter: "I have used the product advertised on your program for years and have been highly satisfied with the results. Keep up the good work...
...extraordinarily brilliant seizure of Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshalls came as great good news to Americans, brooding ever since Tarawa over the high casualties there...
...Vehement protests I am receiving against our use of flame throwers do not indicate an understanding of the meaning of our dead on the beaches of Tarawa...
...attack on the Marshall Islands had caused Navy tacticians many a sleepless night since the decision was made, last summer, to open the Central Pacific. After the expensive Tarawa assault on the Gilberts in November, the tacticians squirmed harder. If the Japs had been able to fortify Tarawa so strongly in a year and a half, what would the Marshalls be like after some 20 years of fortification...
...Tojo told his nation that "there is only a hair's breadth between victory and defeat," warned that Japan must pay a high price for victory: a national service law, all-out production of ships and planes, increased taxes, spiritual mobilization on the frenzied Yamato pattern exhibited at Tarawa, Makin, Attu...