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100 1  Gilbert, Oscar E.,|eauthor. 
245 10 Tanks in hell :|ba Marine Corps tank company on Tarawa
       |h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cOscar E. Gilbert & 
       Romain Cansiere. 
246 30 Marine Corps tank company on Tarawa 
250    Unabridged. 
264  1 [United States] :|bTantor Audio,|c2018. 
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511 1  Read by Joe Barrett. 
520    In May 1943, a self-described "really young, green, 
       ignorant lieutenant" assumed command of a new U.S. 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 November 20, 1943, the 2nd 
       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 E. Gilbert and Romain V. Cansiere use 
       official documents, memoirs, and interviews with veterans 
       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 follow the company
       from training through the brutal seventy-six-hour struggle
       for Tarawa. Survivor accounts and air-photo analyses 
       document the movements-and destruction-of the company's 
       individual tanks. It is a story of escapes from drowning 
       tanks, and even more harrowing extrications 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. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
610 10 United States.|bMarine Corps.|bMarine Division, 2nd.|bTank
       Battalion, 2nd.|bCharlie Company|xHistory. 
650  0 Tarawa, Battle of, Kiribati, 1943. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xTank warfare. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xAmphibious operations. 
650  0 Sherman tank|xHistory. 
650  0 Marines|zUnited States|vInterviews. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xPersonal narratives, American. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xRegimental histories|zUnited States.
700 1  Cansiere, Romain,|eauthor. 
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