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.
U.S. Navy Combat Art Collection Artist Kerr Eby, who landed at Tarawa as a participant, entitled this sketch “Bullets and Barbed Wire.”
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