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Tanks in Hell - A Marine Corps Tank Company on Tarawa (Hardcover)
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Tanks in Hell - A Marine Corps Tank Company on Tarawa (Hardcover)
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In May 1943 a self-described "really young, green, ignorant
lieutenant" assumed command of a new Marine Corps company. His even
younger enlisted Marines were learning to use an untested weapon,
the M4A2 "Sherman" medium tank. His sole combat veteran was the
company bugler, who had salvaged his dress cap and battered horn
from a sinking aircraft carrier. Just six months later the company
would be thrown into one of the ghastliest battles of World War II.
On 20 November 1943 the Second Marine Division launched the first
amphibious assault of the Pacific War, directly into the teeth of
powerful Japanese defenses on Tarawa. In that blood-soaked
invasion, a single company of Sherman tanks, of which only two
survived, played a pivotal role in turning the tide from looming
disaster to legendary victory. In this unique study Oscar Gilbert
and Romain Cansiere use official documents, memoirs, interviews
with veterans, as well as personal and aerial photographs to follow
Charlie Company from its formation, and trace the movement,
action-and loss-of individual tanks in this horrific four-day
struggle. The authors have used official documents and interviews
with veterans to follow the company from training through the
brutal 76-hour struggle for Tarawa. Survivor accounts and air photo
analysis document the movements -and destruction - of the company's
individual tanks. It is a story of escapes from drowning tanks, and
even more harrowing escapes from tanks knocked out behind Japanese
lines. It is a story of men doing whatever needed to be done, from
burying the dead to hand-carrying heavy cannon ammunition forward
under fire. It is the story of how the two surviving tanks and
their crews expanded a perilously thin beachhead, and cleared the
way for critical reinforcements to come ashore. But most of all it
is a story of how a few unsung Marines helped turn near disaster
into epic victory.
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