Across the Reef: The Marine Assault of Tarawa
by Joseph H. Alexander
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About this eBook
- Author
- Alexander, Joseph H., 1938-2014
- Credits
- Produced by Brian Coe, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- D731: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: World War II (1939-1945)
- Subject
- Tarawa, Battle of, Kiribati, 1943
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 48836
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48836
- Release Date
- April 30, 2015
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.Contents — Across the Reef : The Marine Assault of Tarawa
- 3.Across the Reef: The Marine Assault of Tarawa
- 4.Setting the Stage
- 5.Assault Preparations
- 6.The 2d Marine Division at Tarawa
- 7.Major General Julian C. Smith, USMC
- 8.The Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces
- 9.D-Day at Betio, 20 November 1943
- 10.LVT-2 and LVT(A)2 Amphibian Tractors
- 11.‘The Singapore Guns’
- 12.Sherman Medium Tanks at Tarawa
- 13.D+1 at Betio, 21 November 1943
- 14.Colonel David M. Shoup, USMC
- 15.The Third Day: D+2 at Betio, 22 November 1943
- 16.Completing the Task: 23–28 November 1943
- 17.Incident on D+3
- 18.The Significance of Tarawa
- 19.Tarawa Today
- 20.Sources — Errata
- 21.About the Author
- 22.Transcriber’s Notes
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