Photograph of a Marine Giving Water to a Kitten on Tarawa
Posted: October 11, 2025 Filed under: America Since 1945 1 Comment
perusing the National Archives Record Group 38 as one does and found this.

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perusing the National Archives Record Group 38 as one does and found this.

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My father said that many of his grammar school classmates from St Peter’s school in Dorchester joined the marines aqnd died on Tarawa, caught in the barbed wire that was strung underwater between metal traps for landing craft. He was in the army instead of the marines so was spared.
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