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Landing in Tarawa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 27, 1943 | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

Sirs: I believe that Robert Sherrod's story of Tarawa Island capture in your Dec. 6 issue is some of the finest on-the-spot reporting I have ever read. . . Sherrod portrayed very graphically the unquenchable spirit of our Marines. We can't be beat with a spirit like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 27, 1943 | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

Nowhere, save at Blue Beach, did the Sixth Army encounter the defenses or the bloody kind of resistance found at Munda and Tarawa. Its casualties were light. It quickly dispersed a numerically weak Jap garrison. Within five hours it had made good the landing. The Arawe peninsula and its key coastal isles were taken. The mopping up was not completed when U.S. troops began to enlarge their beachhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Party at Arawe | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

...lessons of Tarawa were written into bills authorizing more landing craft, which were rushed through Congress last week. The Navy's landing-craft program now totals 80,000, from the huge (450 ft.) dock ships to rubber rafts. Marines were especially glad to see that there were some "Alligators" on the program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Reef Climbers | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...Tarawa, the Marines wished they had more of them. Last week the Navy agreed a "substantial proportion" of the new landing-craft construction will be LVTs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Reef Climbers | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

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