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THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, WprIl 7, y$44r

While your $100 nestled in the bank

THE TIME: November, 1943.

THE PLACE: Betio, just one of twenty-five outcroppings
that comprise Tarawa atoll of the Gilbert Islands.
SCENE I: Early morning of November 19th.
In the most concentrated naval gunfire in history,

800 tons of bombs are dropped by American car-
rier planes and 2000 tons of shells are hurled by
battleships, cruisers, and destroyers.
But all of that is not enough.

SCENE

The next day.

The table reef prevents the Marines from landing
in their Higgins boats and many have to debark
800 yards from the beach and wade in against
heavy fire.

Squads of them are blown back into the water in
bloody, unidentifiable masses. Many more are hung
. in death on the barbed-wire barricades in the shal-
,low waters that lap over the treacherous reef
Now come the Jap pillboxes—some 500 of them—
made of coconut logs or,concrete or steel. So ingeni-
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ward one is destroyed, the Marines moving into
the clearedArea are mowed down by fire from two
inner pillboxes.

And finally, the inevitable snipers in the palm trees
—unseen, unpredictable, accurate.

SCENE III: Evening of the third day.

Betio has been taken by the United Nations!
But that little strip of. white coral, less than one
square mile in area, cost us the fiercest, bloodiest
most ruthless battle in all American history. 1092
Marines paid with their lives. And the best part of
2680 will never again be whole, free-moving men.
Officers who know warn us that Betio was only the
beginning of the real war in the Pacific.

Is that WO of yours still nestling? Its needed
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over and above your regular bond-buying.
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