Word: tarawa
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With this in mind, I cannot defend nor justify Robert Sherrod's report ["After Two Years"] on the battle of Tarawa. ... In this particular report, whom did TIME think they were benefiting...
...ever worked out a just system of economic payments for the Marines at Tarawa. No one has been foolish enough...
...Year did not live to take the bow. He died in Tunis, on Tarawa, at Salerno, on the blood-soaked fields around Kiev, Changsha, Kharkov. He lost his face, his limbs and his mind before flamethrowers, in the cockpits of blazing planes, in the insane shadows of the jungle. He had badly wanted to live. When he died, the world had lost one particle of its meaning. But his death added more meaning than it took: it gave the living another chance to abolish the ugly crime of war. The soldier who died was the father of the unborn future...
...that Bushido was not an exclusive spiritual cloak for those who fight; it was also for those who produce. Said Tokyo radio: "Step by step and moment by moment [the enemy] is approaching our mainland. . . . To support the spirit and follow the souls of the 4,500 men [on Tarawa and Makin] who preferred death to dishonor is the best way to fight. . . . The 100 million people [of Japan] must arouse themselves and must follow the glory of the 4,500 heroes...
...Marine hero of the Tarawa battle was Siwash, an artillery battalion's mascot. Siwash is a duck. Landing with his outfit, Siwash spent 36 hours under fire, in the first 15 minutes of his invasion beat the stuffing out of a Jap rooster, attacked and routed a shell-shocked Jap pig. Siwash showed no battle strain...