Word: tarawa
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...while its news is still fresh we are printing one edition in Australia for General MacArthur's men and another edition in Honolulu for our soldiers and sailors in the Central Pacific. (Three hundred copies were flown into the Gilberts on schedule the Monday after the battle on Tarawa.) There is another edition in Iran-and in addition something like a quarter of a million copies of TIME's less-than-an-ounce "Pony" are being rushed from this country to our troops on other fronts all over the world...
Lieut, (j.g.) Jay Odell, of St. Paul, was a Naval air liaison officer on Tarawa. The battalion he landed with lost nearly all its staff, so Odell served as Operations officer for a Marine battalion. Afterwards, back in Honolulu, he told this story...
...correspondents had gone through their toughest battle of the Pacific war-Tarawa. When they had written all their dispatches, TIME'S Robert Sherrod sat down and wrote one more...
...hauled himself into it, he found only dead marines there. He stayed with the dead all night. Next morning he was close to being shot for a Jap: during the night the enemy had swum to disabled landing craft and were using them as machine-gun nests. Not until Tarawa's third day did Bundy finally get ashore...
...taking a shower to rid himself of the putrid smell of the dead, when the ship unexpectedly pulled out. He finally got a message to Rear Admiral Howard Kingman, a battleship division commander, who sent a catapult plane. It took Hippie's stories, a day late, back to Tarawa, whence they were planed to Pearl Harbor for radioing...