Word: tulagi
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...quiet, palm-edged cemetery at Guadalcanal went the bodies of soldiers, sailors and marines once buried in the Russells, Espiritu Santo and Tulagi. Men who died as prisoners in scattered, Jap-held islets of the Marshalls, soldiers who fell at Makin, marines who died to take Roi and Namur will be moved to the cemetery on Ennylabegan, in the south of Kwajalein Atoll...
While Cook was highballing his way to New York, researchers here in our editorial offices were busy digging out background material on the First Marine Division-how it fought at Tulagi and Gavutu and Koli Point, at Tenaru and Matanikau and Cape Esperance (there were pages of these background facts, but they had to be told in nine published lines...
...aboard were 370 members of the ist Marine Division-survivors of Tulagi, conquerors of Guadalcanal; the men who mowed down the Japs like hay at Bloody Ridge, and crossed the bloody Matanikau River; the invaders of Cape Gloucester, the rain-drenched fighters of Talasea, the men who took Hill 660 when they should have been annihilated halfway up; the unnamed defenders of Nameless Hill, the survivors of Coffin Corner...
Their commander: lanky, bald, mustachioed Major General William H. Rupertus, who commanded a Marine landing on Tulagi in August, 1942. For his deeds then 54-year-old Rupertus was awarded the Navy Cross...
This strange confession was made Dec. 10 by a U.S. Marine who had been to Guadalcanal, New Caledonia, Tulagi, Bougainville. He was Combat Correspondent Sergeant Roy Maypole, 29, onetime radio soap-opera impresario. He spoke too soon. When the Marines landed on Bougainville's Empress Augusta Bay, Sergeant Maypole heard some shooting and saw some Japs...