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To: artichokegrower

Found on Tarawa. Damn tough fight.


5 posted on 07/28/2017 4:17:03 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker

Any fight against the Japanese in WW11 was a miserable bitchof a fight.


7 posted on 07/28/2017 4:20:27 PM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: colorado tanker

Across The Reef: The Marine Assault of Tarawa by Joseph H. Alexander
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48836

Folio history of around 100 pages IIRC, commissioned by the Marines immediately post-WWII. Worthwhile. Free. There are several others available on the site. Guadalcanal, Wake, etc.


13 posted on 07/28/2017 4:46:06 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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