US Marines go ashore into a savage meat grinder on the Tarawa atoll. 1,700 U.S. personnel were killed, and another 2,100 were wounded.
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20 Nov 1943
US Marines go ashore into a savage meat grinder on the Tarawa atoll. 1,700 U.S. personnel were killed, and another 2,100 were wounded.
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Last edited by namvet; 11-20-2015 at 08:41 PM.
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My Dad was there..
Hand Salute.
I have lost my mind. If found, please give it a snack and return it?
"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same of others"...John Wayne in "The Shootist"
A Deplorable!
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Yeah after the Jap admiral said it couldn't be taken in 100 years by a million men.
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And the "great" CHesty Puller is the one that created that meatgrinder. He lost a battalion with continued frontal assaults.
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke
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well that was Marine fighting style. fuck the causalities and take the objective at all cost. especially with a large fleet waiting off shoreOriginally Posted by Gunny
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Could have been a little smarter, don't you think?
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke
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