The Marines of Tarawa, 1943: Issue In Doubt

The book is an unparalleled visual chronicle of the Battle of Tarawa in the Pacific theater in World War II.What makes this book particularly rare is the accessThe Battle of Tarawa was a bloody harbinger of the many Pacific Island battles that were to come.Second Marine Division prepare for, enroute to and invade the tiny Pacific atoll known as Betio TARAWA in what becomes the largest and most ambitious amphibious operation of its time, 1943 of the Second World War.This assault from the sea was comparable to that of the Normandy Invasion of the follow summer of 1944.In Volume I we follow the men of the 2nd Marine Division and that of Task Force 53 via their daily battle diaries, in their own words as written per each day of the operation, combined with a series of photographs as they were taken on each day of Operation Galvanic.For a first time since the 1943 battle, the reader follows the daily events as they unfold per the page.Featuring a collection of some 450 images and recovered