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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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.
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!
Yeah after the Jap admiral said it couldn't be taken in 100 years by a million men.
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
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke
a vet of this battle returned to chase away some demons. what he found was shocking
Leon Cooper return to Tarawa
The Japanese General had his men wait until the beaches were full before firing.
That strategy greatly added to the slaughter
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke
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!
they did shoot the amtracs as they came into the lagoon. they were forced to maneuver around the Jap obstacles which brought them into the cannon cross hairs. no win. blew em outta the water. also the tide was low and they got hung up on the reef coming into the lagoon. forced to offload troops onto smaller landing craft. it was a turkey shoot out there. those that made it to the beach had a 3 foot high coconut log wall to mount. a cluster fuck from the get go