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RE: Name This...(428)
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 2:44 pm
by Cap Mandrake
More precisely it is
"STORMING YELLOW BEACH, first wave of the 2d Battalion Landing Team, 165th Infantry, wades over wide reef under machine-gun fire from wharf on each flank. At 1040, 20 November 1943, they approach the main defensive area from the lagoon. Fires from hits by big naval guns."
Pic of assault on Yellow Beach (North side of island)
RE: Name This...(428)
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 3:39 pm
by DuckofTindalos
If they're being machinegunned from either flank, they're rather relaxed about it.
RE: Name This...(428)
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 4:58 pm
by Sonny
ORIGINAL: Terminus
If they're being machinegunned from either flank, they're rather relaxed about it.
Well everybody knows the allies get so much stuff by that time in the war that casualties don't mean anything.
RE: Name This...(428)
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 5:03 pm
by DuckofTindalos
In 11/43?
RE: Name This...(428)
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 5:32 pm
by witpqs
It's a joke. "... casualties don't mean anything." Except to the casualties!
RE: Name This...(428)
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 6:55 pm
by Twotribes
I didnt think Tarawa was that late.
RE: Name This...(428)
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 7:12 pm
by DuckofTindalos
D-Day for Tarawa was 11/20/43, Makin a week later.
RE: Name This...(428)
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 8:17 pm
by tsimmonds
D-Day for both landings was Nov 20, 1943.
RE: Name This...(428)
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 8:29 pm
by DuckofTindalos
So it was. I misread my reference material...
RE: Name This...(428)
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 6:29 am
by ilovestrategy
ORIGINAL: Twotribes
Just North and east of Tarawa.
Thanks for the info Twotribes [:)]