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Navy ship font11/8/2022 Though secured, the island was far from safe from the Japanese. #NAVY SHIP FONT FULL#Supply dumps destroyed during the bombardment, and full of rotting food, created a breeding ground for the flies and mosquitos that swarmed across the island in a pestilent cloud.Ī scene of the devestation encounted by the Seabees on Tarawa Every tree on the island had been destroyed or toppled by the relentless naval and aerial bombardment that had been unleashed on the island in the days prior to the invasion and that had killed half of the island’s Japanese defenders. “Beito, (the main island of Tarawa atoll) an island of only 285 acres, was a mass of ruins and strewn with the unburied dead” relayed the cruise book for the 74 th Naval Construction Battalion. Since the invasion on the 20 th, the men of this unit had been waiting patiently off shore watching the aircraft of the US fleet pound the island as the assault forces attacked the Japanese on land. When the island was declared secured by the Marines, the Seabees came ashore to find a landscape that only war can create. On November 23, 1943, three days after the US Marines Corps invaded the coral atoll of Tarawa, in the Gilbert Islands, the 74 th Seabees were cleared to offload from their LSTs. Map of the main target of the American thrust into the Gilbert Islands, the island of Beito, showing the landings made by the US Marines
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