Word: tarawa
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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Landing in Tarawa...
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...
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...
Last week Marine Major General Holland M. ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, who commanded amphibious operations in the assault on the Gilbert Islands, spoke to home folks who had quailed at the losses on Tarawa (TIME...
...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...