Found on Tarawa. Damn tough fight.
Any fight against the Japanese in WW11 was a miserable bitchof a fight.
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.