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Guadalcanal to Tarawa. Under Turner's immediate command, the new amphibious forces invaded Guadalcanal. Screening warships, unaccustomed to this new kind of mission, were caught napping by Jap cruisers. In a few agonizing hours on a rainy August night, four Allied cruisers were sunk. Naked transports carrying precious supplies brought thousands of miles were hastily withdrawn. For three months the Marines fought without substantial supplies or reinforcements and cursed the Navy...
...months ago, backed by a tremendous force of carriers and escorting warships, Turner invaded the Gilberts. The Tarawa landing was the most ferocious battle yet fought in the Pacific. In the end, sheer weight and the Marines prevailed. "Impregnable" Tarawa was secured in four days...
...masses of coral sand, large enough to support airfields and artillery installations. Hot and waterless, the Marshalls lie under the equatorial sun and dead men begin to stink very promptly. Flat and naked, the Marshall atolls have no natural protection, but how well they are fortified was indicated at Tarawa...
Henry, aboard his destroyer in the same engagement, stood in to Tarawa's lagoon firing at almost point-blank range on Jap shore batteries. Direct hits on his ship did not discourage Henry, who blazed away with even more enthusiasm...
...Seventh tangled with 60 Zeros-almost double the heaviest opposition previously encountered over the Marshalls. Clearly the Japs were getting stronger. Almost every night, and once five times in a single night, Jap planes droned over U.S. positions on Makin, Tarawa and Abemama in the Gilberts. The U.S. Navy said that the enemy's numbers were small, his blows negligible. But the raids gave a warning: unlike the Gilberts, where there had been scant air resistance, the Marshalls would be defended in the air, over the seas, and on the ground...