“Go Get Your Feet Wet, Boys!” PTO (id:#65459)

(From The Cellar Pack #10 ID: FT296)   [next]   [previous]

Betio, Tarawa atoll, Gilbert Island 1943-11-21 (6 others)

Overview:

On Red Beach 2, Captain Williams, leading Baker Company, 1st Battalion, 2nd Marines, with no working radio had ordered a wire-party to lay a landline from his position back to Colonel Shoup’s CP so as to find out what orders the regimental commander had for him. No sooner had the connection been established, than William’s heard the distinctive booming yells of Major Culhane, the regimental operations officer, in the earpiece to his handset. “Go get your feet wet, boys!” Culhane was ordering an attack to the south. Williams organized his forty to fifty odd men. To follow the orders he had been given he would have to cross a large swath of wide open ground, with no cover in immediate sight. Their only hope was to catch the enemy off guard.

Defender: American (USMC) (Baker Company, 1st Battalion, and H Company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines, 2nd Marine Division)  

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