Hell Wouldn't Have It

By 1930 hours on D+2, General "Howlin' Mad" Smith was on shore to personally take command of his Second Division. Plans were made for the 6th Marines to clear up the remaining one thousand or so Japanese rikusentai. Incredibly, by the third night an expected banzai attack had …

1943-11-22

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By 1930 hours on D+2, General "Howlin' Mad" Smith was on shore to personally take command of his Second Division. Plans were made for the 6th Marines to clear up the remaining one thousand or so Japanese rikusentai. Incredibly, by the third night an expected banzai attack had not materialized. The death of General Shibasaki on D-Day doomed all attempts to coordinate an intelligent counterattack. By D+2, though, the Japanese were forced into the narrow "tail" of Betio, leaving the rikusentai one last chance to marshall their forces for a final attempt to force the Marines back into the sea.

Betio Island, Tarawa

The Battle of Tarawa was a battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that was fought on 20–23 November 1943. It took place at the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands, and was part of Operation Galvanic, the U.S. invasion of the Gilberts. Nearly 6,400 Japanese, Koreans, and Americans died in the fighting, mostly on and around the small island of Betio, in the extreme southwest of Tarawa Atoll.

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