The Road to Victory by Robert O'Neill

Author:Robert O'Neill
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The Road to Victory: From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa
ISBN: 9781849088879
Publisher: Osprey Publishing Ltd
Published: 2011-10-28T16:00:00+00:00

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As November 23 dawned the final major actions of the battle took place. Destroyers and carrier planes had battered the area from 0700hrs to 0730hrs, prior to the Marines moving out. Supported by Sherman and Stuart tanks, McLeod’s men made good progress despite facing some suicidal resistance, accounting for some 475 of the enemy for the loss of only nine killed and 25 wounded. At 1300hrs a sweaty Marine stepped onto the sand spit at the far tip of Betio and swilled the dust from his face; the whole eastern half of the island was in American hands.

“The Marines fought almost solely on esprit decorps, I was certain. It was inconceivable to most Marines that they should let another Marine down, or that they could be responsible for dimming the bright reputation of their Corps. The Marines simply assumed that they were the world's best fighting men.”

— ROBERT SHERROD, 1943, REGARDING THE BATTLE OF TARAWA

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