Transcriber’s note: Table of Contents added by Transcriber and placed into the Public Domain.
Contents
- [Across the Reef: The Marine Assault of Tarawa]
- [Setting the Stage]
- [Assault Preparations]
- [Sidebar: The 2d Marine Division at Tarawa]
- [Sidebar: Major General Julian C. Smith, USMC]
- [Sidebar: The Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces]
- [D-Day at Betio, 20 November 1943]
- [Sidebar: LVT-2 and LVT(A)2 Amphibian Tractors]
- [Sidebar: ‘The Singapore Guns’]
- [Sidebar: Sherman Medium Tanks at Tarawa]
- [D+1 at Betio, 21 November 1943]
- [Sidebar: Colonel David M. Shoup, USMC]
- [The Third Day: D+2 at Betio, 22 November 1943]
- [Completing the Task: 23–28 November 1943]
- [Sidebar: Incident on D+3]
- [The Significance of Tarawa]
- [Sidebar: Tarawa Today]
- [Sources]
- [About the Author]
- [About the Series]
- [Transcriber’s Notes]
Across the Reef:
The Marine Assault
of Tarawa
Marines in
World War II
Commemorative Series
By Colonel Joseph H. Alexander
U.S. Marine Corps (Ret)
LtGen Julian C. Smith Collection
“Quiet Lagoon” is a classic end-of-battle photograph of the considerable wreckage along Red Beach Two.