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$8.50 1945 magazine article on GILBERT ISLANDS, WWII, natives in Hubbards, Nova Scotia for sale

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Selling is a 1945 magazine article about: Gilbert Islands Title: Gilbert Islands In the Wake of Battle Author: W. Robert Moore Quoting the 1st page “War has swept swiftly past the Gilbert Islands on the wide Pacific route to Tokyo. The battle wounds of Tarawa and Makin are slowly healing. So much change has already taken place that the men who wrested these resistance points from the Japanese on November 20-24, 1943, would hardly recognize the areas now. Big bulldozers have leveled many of the stout pillboxes and scooped coral sand into yawning shell holes and bomb craters. Tree stumps have been pushed aside. The few scattered coconut trees that survived the awful rocking blasts and flying steel have put out new green fronds. Men stationed here now live in thatched houses and canvas tents and enjoy the luxury of electric lights and running-water showers. True, the water in which they bathe and wash their clothes is brackish, but it is purified. No longer do they dip it from fetid wells or coral rock holes. A thick log stockade that housed Japanese communications has been converted into an officers' club. The plane in which I came to the Gilberts landed on this tiny pin point of land-Tarawa-in the wee hours of a black night. It was a routine flight, 1 of the kind which, with few heroics, operate daily throughout the vast Pacific area, carrying men, materials, and mail to islands hardly known before the war. United States bases here in the Gilberts are becoming stops on the entertainment "circuit." But, thus far, they are still a novelty. The night after my arrival everyone sat through a torrential downpour waiting eagerly for a "personal appearance" show to go on. Many of the fellows huddled under dripping ponchos hadn't seen a white woman for more months than they cared to count. Enough wreckage and scars still remain on Tarawa, however, to keep you from forgetting the awful fury of battle that churned and burned and ripped the island apart a few months ago. Tiny Betio Island, lying at the southwest corner of Tarawa Atoll, is where the Japanese had concentrated their defenses. It is just over 2 mis long and about 700 yards across at its widest place. The other islands of the atoll about the wide, deep lagoon are green, green with the massed fronds of coconut trees. Not so Betio. Probably fewer than a hundred palms remain alive here. The few others left standing are only headless stumps. The island is little more than a naked strip of blinding white coral sand separating sea and sky, so great was the devastation. Today the American flag flies from the same beheaded palm upon which the 1st colors were hoisted by the 2nd Marines after they fought their way ashore. Almost beneath it is 1 of the several small cemeteries on the island, where stand rows of white crosses above trimly kept mounds of…" 7” x 10”, 33 pages, 11 B&W and nineteen color pictures plus map These are pages from an actual 1945 magazine. No reprints or copies. 45B1 Please note the flat-rate shipping for my magazine articles. Please see my other auctions and store items for more old articles, advertising pages and non-fiction books. Click Here To Visit My eBay Store: busybeas books and adsHundreds of items!Anything I find that looks interesting! Please see my other auctions for more goodies, books and magazines. I’ll combine wins to save on postage. No postage charge for the ads or articles if you buy a book that I can mail the ads/articles inside. Thanks For Looking! Luke 12: 15 Powered by eBay Turbo Lister


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