Word: tarawa
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...public, with that school of governmental thought that wants to manipulate the people into "war awareness." His prescription: just give them a play-byplay account of the real war, as swiftly, as honestly, and as completely as legitimate security reasons permit. He succeeded conspicuously in the days of Tarawa. But this was still the exception emphasizing the questionable rule that, for instance, was applied to the Bari disaster: to resent rather than encourage the people's desire to participate in the ups & downs of military operations...
Navy spokesmen last week tried to correct the impression at home that Tarawa's cost had been too high (TIME...
Survivors of the baby flat-top Liscome Bay, torpedoed offshore during the Gil berts invasion, numbered 268. This fact indicated that almost as many men went down with the ship as died on Tarawa; yet no one got particularly excited about the Liscome...
Brigadier General Merritt A. Edson, Marine veteran of Guadalcanal and Ta rawa, contended that Tarawa's casualties, relatively no higher than Guadalcanal's, had struck the public "more forcefully'' because they were suffered in four days instead of four months. Battle-hardened Merritt Edson declared that determined Jap resistance, rather than U.S. mistakes, caused the losses on Tarawa and would cause more on other islands. Marines particularly resented the suggestion in some reports that excessive losses off the beaches indicated bungled landings; at least half of the dead fell within the Japs' inner defenses...
...Navy believes that, given sufficient carriers, it can capture any Pacific island. It will meet grave disappointments, because every island held by Japan is an excellent carrier in itself. On Bougainville and Tarawa, both comparatively insignificant, the Americans learned how much they must pay for every capture. The cost will be heavier from...