![]() ![]() Carlson had attacked Makin Atoll a year earlier. The 2d Raider Battalion under Lieutenant Colonel Evans F. Spruance told the Marines to prepare for an amphibious assault against Japanese positions in the Gilbert Islands in November. Spruance, commanding the Central Pacific Force, flew to New Zealand from Pearl Harbor. Smith and his principal staff officers of the 2d Marine Division, Vice Admiral Raymond A. In August 1943, to meet in secret with Major General Julian C. The Marine Assault of Tarawa by Colonel Joseph H. Smith Collection)Īrtist Kerr Eby, who landed at Tarawa as a participant, entitled thissketch "Bullets and Barbed Wire." "Quiet Lagoon" is a classic end-of-battle photograph of the considerable wreckage along Red Beach Two. Across the Reef: The Marine Assault of Tarawa Across the Reef:
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