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copyright 1998-2005 T.O.T.W.
Created September 20, 1998
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Updates
September 20, 1998: Added update page
September 26, 1998: Added Tinian page
October 4, 1998: Updated casualties page, added Japanese tank picture
February 2, 1999: Updated Arnold Gladson's diary
March 1, 1999: Added list of Navy Cross recipients to Decorations and Awards section
March 9, 1999: Added Sgt. Edward R. Godwin page
March 9, 1999: Added chart on Japanese AA ammo expenditure.
March 9, 1999: Added Medal of Honor citations
March 9, 1999: Added Pfc John Gross section
March 9, 1999: Updated links
April 17, 1999: Added KIA list
April 20, 1999: Updated Readers Write section
May 29, 1999: Updated links, added Sea Stories, added Funny Money.
November 30, 1999: Added Tarawa Talk.
January 11, 2000: Added Tarawa 2000, added Rozmanik Page, added Gordon H. Stevens account, added Tarawa Art.
January 25, 2000: Added Scuttled Ship.
February 13, 2000: Updated the following sections: Links, Saipan, Tinian, and Mystery Photos.
March 10, 2000: Updated Stevens page.
May 5, 2000: Added Caudle page, Kern page,and Jackubowski page.
June 18, 2000: Added Browner account and updated Rozmanik page.
August 15, 2000: Added Rusting Relics page.
August 20, 2000: Added Joe Jansen information and updated Links.
September 14, 2000: Added Donald Nichols diary, updated Japanese Armor, and updated Readers Write.
September 24, 2000: Added Higgins Boat and Marines in Action!
October 7, 2000: Added British Valor Awards, updated Medal of Honor pages, and updated Silver Star page.
October 8, 2000: Added Bookstore, updated all the Map sections, and added 4 aerial photos.
October 22, 2000: Added What Happened to the 2nd Tank Battalion?, Les Groshong account and Marine Communication Equipment.
November 5, 2000: Added Green Beach Tank.
November 12, 2000: Added USMC Armor on Tinian and Japanese Armor on Saipan.
November 17, 2000: Added Japanese Diary and Jack Pease page.
January 8, 2001: Added Arthur Waldenville page, added Alton Harwood page, updated KIA section and updated Silver Star list.
February 2, 2001: Opened TOTW Bookstore, updated What Happened to the 2nd Tank Battalion?
February 10, 2001: Added Francis Healy account and WWII USMC Reenactor page.
February 17, 2001: Added Joseph Miles Griggs, Jr. account.
February 26, 2001: Added Glen Boren account.
March 13, 2001: Added First U.S. Aircraft on Betio
March 20, 2001: Added After Action Report by Col. Shoup.
March 22, 2001: Added "Scot" Kinsman account.
April 6, 2001: Added Lee Miller account.
April 13, 2001: Added Clarence R. Petrie and Raymond Duffee accounts.
April 17, 2001: Added William H. Sanders and Jim Evans accounts.
April 29, 2001: Finished Silver Star section and added 2nd Division Order of Battle.
May 3, 2001: Added article "The Medical Corps was on the Job"
May 9, 2001: Added Joe Jordan account.
May 22, 2001: Added William T. Bray account.
May 28, 2001: Added LVT page, updated Gordon H. Stevens (My Dad!), and Edward Caudle.
June 3, 2001: Added John K. Mohrlang account, Frank T. Morrow information, and added Tarawa reenactor pictures.
June 14, 2001: Added Divsional Manpower Chart
June 17, 2001: Added MIA list
June 22, 2001: Added Thomas Balducci account.
June 26, 2001: Added Henry C. Verhaalen story.
June 28, 2001: Added Maj. H. P. Crowe and Sgt. Robert L. (Bob) George account.
June 30, 2001: Added Pvt. John A. Bolthouse Jr., Cpl. Orville E. W. Broeker, Major William C. Chamberlin, and Col. Merrit R. Edson accounts.
July 1, 2001: Added Lt. Wayne A. Parker Navy Cross citation and added Beach Obstacles.
July 2, 2001: Added Cpl. Robert Voorhees account.
July 21, 2001: Added Dex Greer information, started new Unit section, added Weapons Company 2/2, D/1/6 mortar platoon, and F/2/6.
July 22, 2001: Added Pvt. Milford Roe information and D.O.W. list.
July 29, 2001: Added Plt. Sgt. Murl Bright account.
August 4, 2001: Added U.S. Navy Medical Corps Casualties page.
August 5, 2001: Added 2nd Lt William C. Culp account.
August 12, 2001: Added "E" Company 2/2.
August 13, 2001: Added Staff Sgt. Norm Hatch section.
August 18, 2001: Added Radioman 2nd Class William L. McDonald account and Capt. Lyle Specht account.
September 1, 2001: Added Going Home: One Flag's Long Journey.
September 6, 2001: Added 58th Tarawa Reunion and HA1C Lester B King.
September 16, 2001: Added U.S.S. Colorado at Tarawa and updated the WIA list.
September 24, 2001: Added Sgt. Roy W. Johnson.
September 30, 2001: Added PFC Clyde Lord, added Japanese Anti-Aircraft and Coastal Defense Weapons Table, and updated the WIA list.
October 14, 2001: Added 2nd Amphibious Tractor Battalion section, and updated Japanese Anti-Aircraft and Coastal Defense Weapons Table.
October 21, 2001: Added Type 88 75 mm Dual Purpose Gun, revised Bonnyman's Hill, and updated the Bookstore.
October 26, 2001: Added Irvin Cunningham page and updated the Links.
October 28, 2001: Added Cpl. William F. Langford.
December 22, 2001: Added Pvt. Jack Redman, John Garret - Coast Guard Correspondant, and updated Tarawa Art.
January 5, 2002: Added Private James A. Whitworth.
January 8, 2002: Added P.F.C. Hartley S. LeRoy.
February 5, 2002: Added New Publications and Reviews, Reviewed "Too Young to Vote", and updated Glen Boren's Diary.
February 10, 2002: Added PM2C Harry P. Dewey, Charles Konstantino, 2nd Medical Battalion, updated 1st Lt. William H. Sanders, and 2nd Medical Battalion.
February 13, 2002: Updated Decorations and Awards and added Distinguished Service Medal.
February 22, 2002: Added PM2C James Dudley Barker, PM3C John Ellis Hardy, and an aerial map "The Beak".
March 24, 2002: Added A Co.,1st Battalion, 10th Marines.
June 30, 2002: Updated 1st Lt Bonnyman and added George M. Cothran, D/2/18.
August 31, 2002: Updated Dex Greer account and added Frank Kern, A/1/10.
September 8, 2002: Added Cpl. "Doug" Crotts and Cpl. Bill Eads.
September 14, 2002: Added Earl Delong, PFC W. W. Betts, USS Schroeder - Casualties Received, and updated Links.
October 1, 2002: Added P.F.C. Raymond P. Cywinski, P.F.C. Bob Geil, P.F.C. Raymond Knight, P.F.C. H. Frank Lupien, Private Floyd R. Smith, and Sergeant Donald R. Twedell.
15 October 2002: Added aerial photos: "Pierhead", "To the Beach", and Red Beach Two.
20 October 2002: Added tanks Cobra and Cuddles; updated Cpl Bill Eads.
22 October 2002: Added Sgt. Clifton Fomby and Communications Platoon Roster, 3/HQ/8 May 1944.
1 December 2002: Added Pvt. Robert Joseph Baribeau, P.F.C. Gail Diffenbaugh, P.F.C Bill Haddad, Sixth Marines, and P.F.C. Louis J. Van Engen Jr.. Updated USMC Radios.
21 December 2002: Added Cpl. Vern M. Anderson, P.F.C. Harry O. Grey, P.F.C. Robert D. Jenks, Sgt. Everett N. Marsh, Sgt. Fay V. Moore, Sgt. Donald D. Stoddard, Cpl. Robert Swigert.
18 January 2003: Added Cpl. Vincent R. Condelario, P.F.C. James L. DeMarsche, Private William H. Oakley. Updated Marine Archival Records.
25 February 2003: Added Tech. Sgt. Vern Carpenter, William Jefferies, Frank Johnston, and Pvt. Russell W. Vocila.
9 March 2003: Added 1st Lt. Alan Leslie, 1st Lt. Paul S. Hospodar, and P.F.C. Vincent Traversie.
16 March 2003: Added P.F.C. Lawrence E. Garrison, P.F.C. Neil H. Buckley, Sgt. Micheal V. Greco, and Franklin Paine.
18 April 2003: Added P.F.C. Hester S. "Buck" Webb , Co. C, 1st. Corp. Medium Tank Battalion, and 3/HQ/8 Communications Platoon.
29 April 2003: Added the following tanks: Cannonball, Charlie, China Gal, and Colorado.
5 May 2003: Updated Tarawa Art, USMC Reenactors, and added Condor.
18 May 2003: Added Chicago, Robert McGrath, Cpl. Joseph T. Lawdon, Walter Christenson, and "Tex" Rudloff.
15 June 2003: Updated the Introduction. Added modern picture of Camp Elliott, Reports of the Battalion Commanders, Major Charles W. McCoy C.O. 2nd Tank Battalion, and the tank Clipper. A new Email Icon will be used in an effort to reduce SPAM.
22 June 2003: Added Captain James W. Crain, Captain Warren Morris, Lt. James C. Reed, Major Howard J. Rice, Major Michael P. Ryan, and Major John F. Schoettel.
29 July 2003: Added Siwash, Chaplain Willard, and Walter Pouliot.
17 August 2003: Updated Alton L. Harwood. Added: John E. Lane, P.F.C. George H. Lind, and Pvt. James W. "Red" Mulligan.
31 August 2003: Added PFC Edgar Best, The Corpsman, PFC Homer Dugas, Muster Rolls, Pvt. Albert L. Parker, Grant Timmerman MOH Saipan, and a new Japanese tank picture.
12 September 2003: Added George Blakeman, Cpl. Gerald Boeve, Sgt Herbert Cannaday, 2nd Defense Battalion, Cpl. Roscoe Hupp, Cpl. Robert Johnsmiller, PFC James Lawyer, Jim Nelson, Colin Romoff, Capt. Robert Rose, and Sgt. Raymond Wyss.
28 September 2003: Added P.F.C. Donald Tyson, 1st Lt. Clinton N. Dunahoe, and Cpl. William D. McKibben. Resumed postings in the "Looking For..." section.
13 October 2003: Added P.F.C. Homer B. Browning, P.F.C. George Chacon, P.F.C. Frank T. Chodl, Cpl. Robert F. Clement, P.F.C. George M. Conner, P.F.C. William W. Erwin, P.F.C. Robert A. Higuera, Pvt. Charles A. Hotchkiss, Pvt. Aaron F. Jackson, Cpl. Wilson R. Lee, P.F.C. Wilbur C. Mattern, Sgt. Ugo Mauriello, P.F.C. James Malcom Riggin, Sgt. William E. Veeck, Pvt. Robert L. Whately, and Pvt. John A. Wilson.
26 October 2003: Added Cpl. Robert Ferguson, P.F.C. John F. Foreman, P.F.C. Michael Green, P.F.C. Kenneth W. Marcellus, Cpl. John J. Martinez, Sgt. Ugo Mauriello, P.F.C. Milton J. Mayer, Cpl. Wayne G. Meadow, P.F.C. Eugene M. McPhee, Sgt. Kenneth W. Seymour, and P.F.C. Willaim D. Via.
5 November 2003: Added Sgt. David B. Bozarth Jr., Cpl. Walter E. Brown, Sergeant John W. Mahoney, and Cpl. Edward Marshall.
3 December 2003: Added Cpl. Charles Manning, P.F.C. George Traver, and Death of Two LVTs.
9 December 2003: Added 1st Lt. Dean Ladd, Kirchner Collection, and Donohue Collection.
10 January 2004: Added Warrant Officer-MG Leonard Booker, Hubert Johnson, Grant Timmerman, H&S 2 - Tinian, and the Kruger Collection.
23 January 2004: Added Sgt. Glenn E. Anderson, Cpl. Tom Dahl, P.F.C. Robert Leroy Graham, and Meredith Wilford.
30 January 2004: Added Earl Steeb, HQ/2/6, and updated 3/HQ/8.
5 February 2004: Added Don Torgerson, 2nd Signal Company, and Medical Section HQ/1/6.
9 March 2004: Added F. Aguilia, Anthony Azzarello, August Just, D. E. Watts, George Jenkins, Montesuma Reed, Pat McGrath, Pvt. James Lawyer, Pvt. Hubert Johnson, Pvt. John Irvine, PhM 3 J. A. Hale, and Elmer "Pappy" Friedriechsen.
29 April 2004: Added Field Musician First Class Robert Franciskato, 1st Lt. Hugh Dorian Fricks, 2nd Lt. Toivo Henry Ivary, P.F.C. Lawrence C. Kimball, and P.F.C. Eugene Ruggiero.
15 May 2004: Added Sgt. Gordon B. Rasmussen, Herb Reagan, Cpl. Louis V. Reagan, Tech Sgt. Samuel Shaffer, and Two Valley Marines Fight In Heroic Unit On Tarawa.
26 June 2004: Added Darrell B. Albers, Pvt. John A. Bolthouse Jr., Plt. Sgt. Murl Bright, 1st Lt. Hugh D. Fricks, 1st Lt. Edward C. Hennessey, P.F.C. Theodore R. Herbig, Gus Hughes, K/3/2, Cpl. Clarence Kilmek, 1st Lt. Justin G. Mills, P.F.C. Zihlman T. Minick, Cpl. John Eugene Phillips, 1st Lt. Herman E. Rixstine, 1st Lt. Armstead E. Ross, Tech Sgt. Samuel Shaffer, 1st Lt. William I. Sheedy, Capt. Richard W. Vincent, and P.F.C. Melvin R. Welton.
11 August 2004: Added Sgt. Sam Burns, Sgt. Eldon W. Grimm, Pvt. William J. Hicks Jr., Sgt. Robert L. Hoffmann, and P.F.C. Robert S. Philippe.
5 September 2004: Added Lt. Herman Brukhardt (MC), R. R. Gerber, Dale Harden, Hornsby, Sgt. Paul E. Ingram, Eugene M. Josefson, and Kowalewski.
14 October 2004: Added Sgt. Iddo W. Ball, 1st Lt. Loyd S. Harvick, Cpl. Louis E. Malerba, Pvt. Peter Pistono, Pvt. William E. Rambo, Pfc. George H. Traver, and P.F.C. Howard D. Wilson.
4 January 2005: Added Cpl. William Bilchak, Lawrence "Larry" E. Crane, Major Henry C. Drewes, Staff Sgt. Cecil Goddard, and Pvt. Edwin H. Vancil.
26 February 2005: Added Reed L. Bailey, Barve, Black, Cpl. Joseph M. Bonnin, 2nd Lt. Donald R. Dahlgren, R. Dennis, Pfc. Walter De Wane, Jim Ellis, John H. Elwell, Sr., U.S.S. Feland: Decklog, PFC James F. Goldman, Bob Hopcraft, Cpl. Roscoe Walter Hupp, Sgt. Paul E. Ingram, Bill Keith, Peter Kraft, Merle Lawless, Lovell, John R. Martin, C. Moss, P.F.C. Edward Rendon, Bill Schwenn, Sherman, Charles A. Sooter, Cpl. William Sooter, Sgt. Frank J. Susmarski, 3rd Special Base Force H.Q., Tinian Photo Album, P.F.C. Jack Trent, John Uram, E. L. "Red" VandenBerg, Herbert Warble, and Joe Woolum.
2 September 2005: Added PFC Robert T. Keelin, Jr., P.F.C. Robert L. Kennedy, P.F.C. Robert L. Mahaffey, Cpl. Leonce Olivier, P.F.C. Ernest P. Peralta, and P.F.C. Perley W. Sargent.
1 December 2005: Added Gunnery Sergeant Robert H. Wharton. Updated P.F.C. Robert S. Philippe and Sgt. Cecil LeRoy "Roy" Sherman.
22 January 2006: Added Sgt. Jerome B. Morris, Platoon Sgt. Dornice "Dornie" B. Reynolds, Pvt. Albert M. Rout, and the Willard Journal.
17 February 2007 Added: Pfc. Darwin H. Brown, PFC Robert L. Cook, D/2/18, Tarawa Gallery, Pvt. Darrell W. Heath, Walter F. Joyce, Self Propelled Mount, and Pvt. Lloyd V. Smith.
7 April 2007 Added: P.F.C. Don "Donnie" Ward, Cpl. Edward Thornberg, Sergeant Joseph Fluturx, PFC Manual Higgins, PFC Harold Hemmer, and Cpl Kenneth Bishop.
11 August 2007 Added: Sgt. Myron L. Abbott, Pvt. Emil Ragucci, and Corpsman Lonnie Yancey.
29 December 2007 Added: Private First Class Frank E. Childress, Private First Class Carol E. Lunndrigan, Private First Class Columbus V. Housewright, Sergeant Lawrence Loyall, Pvt. Glen Pierce, Pvt. Emil Ragucci, Cpl. Robert E. Voorhees, and "The Sinking of the Japanese Submarine I-35".
3 February 2008 Added: Pfc. George H. Traver picture and PFC Lee W. Strzelecki.
4 August 2008 Added: 2nd Lt. Robert Munkirs and added gunsite pictures to Dex Greer.
27 October 2008 Added: Capt. Thomas Dutton.
20 November 2010 Added: Cpl. Raymond Barker, Donn Parkinson Covey, PhM1C Edwin Joseph Hearne, PFC Lloyd R. Huston, Cpl. Fred McChesney, Jr., Paul J. Rashid, Private Clifford L.Thomas, and Sgt. Carroll F. Walker.
10 October 2012 Added: LVT 1 #15 Worried Mind, Francis Meloro
25 October 2012 Added: Col. Herbert Amey, Robert Clemmens, Maurice Lynch, Thomas Simmons, and updated Herman Brukhardt.
27 December 2012 Added: Gilbert Islands in WWII Review and Sgt. Elwin Hart.
26 April 2014: Updated Living Tarawa Veterans
22 July 2018 Added: P.f.c. H. M. Markley, Sgt. Alvin L. Hitt, Cpl. R. W. Boese, and Lt. J. B. McPeters
26 July 2018 Added: "2 Plat Boat Roster" - Boat Assignment for the 2nd Platoon Men for 20 November 1943
2 August 2018 Added Cpl. Claire E. Goldtrap, P.F.C. Willian P. Lenhart, and uploaded Stan Jersey's Pacific War Research
4 August 2018 Added Robert W. Nelson, Plt. Sgt. Basil Norman Jr., Pfc Leonard F. Noyes, and Sgt. Walter H. Nowak
5 August 2018 Added Cpl. Harry Neihoff, Pvt. Ward Nickell, Joseph Montalbana; and uploaded Tarawa Remembered and Echoes of the Last World War
1 January 2019 Updated Scuttled Ship article
3 February 2019 Added M2 60mm Mortar page
21 March 2019 Added Sgt. James R. Haisley E/2/2
4 August 2019 Added LVT 27 Short Arm
6 December 2019 Added Tech. Sgt. Harry A Carlsen
5 January 2020 Added 2nd Lt. Norman War
17 January 2020 Added Cpl. Osbaldo Rivera Paredes, Pvt. James W. Tobey, Sgt. Robert Toler, 2nd Lt. Mark Tomlinson, Pfc George O. Smith, 1st Sgt. Orvan Slaughter, Sgt. Robert Simpson, 1st Lieutenant Joseph O. B. Schulte, Cpl Hubert C. Luther, Major Henry G. Lawrence, Jr,, Sgt. Eugene L. Hill, Sgt. James L. Gerst.
7 February 2020 Added: A/1/6, Sergeant James R. Atkins, Technical Sergeant Donald L. Baker, Second Lieutenant Joseph James Barr, Captain Martin F. Barrett, Sergeant Elden H. Beers, Second Lieutenant Byron J. Bird, P.f.c. John Borich, Capt. Kenneth L. Brown, First Sergeant Wilbur McC. Burgess, Corporal Phillip Ray Burke, Cpl. Max Clark, Cpl. Richard Close, Corporal Olin L. Darnel, Corporal Glen L. Darnel, Sgt. Emmett L. Dimon, Captain Fenlon A. Durand, Sgt. James L. Gerst, Sgt. Eugene L. Hill, Platoon Sergeant Edwin L. Hilmer, First Lieutenant Wilbur E. Hofmann, Jr, Cpl. Demosthenes V. Katsulis, Major Henry G. Lawrence, Jr., Cpl Hubert C. Luther, P.f.c. Ettore J. Marsolo, Cpl. Osbaldo Rivera Paredes, 1st Lieutenant Joseph O. B. Schulte, Sgt. Robert Simpson, 1st Sgt. Orvan Slaughter, Pfc George O. Smith, Private First Class J. D. Thaxton, Pvt. James W. Tobey, Sgt. Robert Toler, 2nd Lt. Mark Tomlinson, 2nd Lt. Norman Ward, Sergeant Vincent H. Wiehardt, and Cpl. Henry J. Witkowski.
26 February 2021 Added: LVT 1, LVT 2, LVT 6, LVT 9, LVT 10, LVT 11 "Iron Mike", LVT 13 "Wabbit Twacks", LVT 14 LVT 17 "Gwease Ball", LVT 19 "It's Done", LVT 20 "Avenger", LVT 21 "Destruction", LVT 23, LVT 24, LVT 26, LVT 28 "Wiskey Sour", LVT 29, LVT 30, LVT 31, LVT 32"Hey Mabel", LVT 33, LVT 34, LVT 37, LVT 39, LVT 40 "Zombie", LVT 42, LVT 44 "Little Beans", LVT 45, LVT 49 "My Deloris", LVT 50, LVT 52, LVT 54, LVT 61, LVT 65, LVT 66, LVT 67 "Chicago Flash", LVT 2-9, LVT 2-16, LVT 2-27, LVT 2-28, and LVT 2-42
copyright 1998-2005 T.O.T.W.
Created September 20, 1998