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It's part of an atoll called Tarawa Atoll.
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This particular island is called Betio.
Don't ask me how you spell it.
:34:08
You'll have to stick your faces into it
but you don't have to spell it.
:34:12
- This is Red Beach Three. That's us.
- What have they got there?
:34:17
Everything. This island's held
by a special naval landing force.
:34:21
That means Japanese marines.
They're dug in and they're mean.
:34:26
They'd just as soon die as stick a nickel
in a jukebox, but that's all right.
:34:30
Let the other guy die for his country.
You'll live for yours.
:34:37
- What's the matter?
- Nothing.
:34:40
- Get over there.
- I can hear him.
:34:43
Get over there. I don't want anybody
hurt because you didn't listen.
:35:14
- Schoolteacher, do me some homework.
- What's your problem, son?
:35:19
Put down 5,000. Scuttlebutt says
that's how many Nips are on that rock.
:35:23
- The Navy fired 1,000 tons of shells.
- Don't forget the fly-fly boys.
:35:27
Those B-24s have really
been working them over.
:35:31
Now add the tons of explosives, divide it
by the Nips and get the answer.
:35:36
- Maybe we'll be back for noon chow.
- Don't figure that way.
:35:41
The Navy and the fly-fly boys unloaded
plenty on the canal before we went in.
:35:46
When we got ashore there were still a lot
of those lemon-coloured guys waiting.
:35:50
Only way that island was taken
was by putting marines on the beach.
:35:56
You've heard the naval foray's a waste
of time and metal. Stryker knows better.