THE MARINES TAKE TARAWA
i ON TARAWA’S BLOODY SHORE —v. S. Marines battle Japanese on the atoll in the
U t Gilbert Islands which cost more than 1.000 American deid before it fell to Yank attackers.
T>"ARil_ ESCAPE—The Marine standing over the pack howitzer wears a helmet with two holes in
it. A bullet entered the side and left in front, while the Marine was wearing the headpiece. The
■racke is caused by the powder from the howitzer and by sand and coral kicked up by projectiles
Jrcm Jap gur.s.
BATTLE FOR AIRPORT—Marines leave the beachhead to storm the
airport. This photo, taken from the water's edge, shows the small
beach from which the Marines had to operate under withering fire.
Six-Weeks’ Maneuvers
Being Staged in Alaska
WITH ALASKA MANEUVER
FORCE — Gathered from various
Alaskan and Aleutian bases, sol
diers of this composit force are
moving into tents in a new stag
ing area near Fort Richardson
and drawing strange articles of
arctic clothing and equipment
which will be tested in the forth
coming war games.
Although the actual maneuvers
will not get under way until the
middle of January, the troops
will spend the remainder of
their staging period in the field.
“We want to get as close to trail
conditions as possible,” said Lt.
Col. William Walther of Juneau,
commander of the force.
The six-weeks maneuvers will
take the soldiers over the rugg
ed, snow-blanketed region be
tween Talkeetna and Mt. Mc
Kinley National Park. “We are
hoping for cold weather—the
colder the better," Colonel Wal
ther said. ‘‘That’s one reason
for these maneuvers—to provide
a cold-weather test. We have
received reports of seven feet of
snow in one part of the maneu- 1
ver area.”
Part of the Alaska Scout Com- 1
bat Intelligence platoon, its mem- '
bers well-versed in Alaskan ter- !
rain and weather conditions and j
veterans of real warfare in the
Aleutians, will be with the man
euver force as instructors and
advisors.
For maneuver purposes, Tal- |
keetna will be considered the I
j terminus of the Alaskan Rail- j
; road, and the force’s rail head i
supply dump will be located-j
: there. A wide variety of stand
dard and experimental trans
; portation equipment, ranging up
to 21-ton Caterpillar tractors,
will be used. But officers in
charge of the maneuvers believe
that use of mechanized equip
ment will become impracticable
as the supply lines are extended
and terrain becomes more diffi
cult, and are laying their plans
accordingly.
Each soldier of the assault
force will be equipped with snow
shoes and will carry his own
personal equipment. Each squad
will have its own combination
sled-toboggan, propelled by man
power and carry organizational
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THOROUGH JOB of destruction done by shells from U. S. destroy
ers is shown here as marines move up close to buildings leveled by
fire. Black smoke in backgdound is from oil dump set afire by di
rect hit.
THEY MEAN BUSINESS—Armed with carbine and a bandolier of
bullets, a marine gels set to advance as he waits for his buddy to toss
a grenade to cause confusion and death among the Japs ahead.
i equipment and supplies. Each
; platoon will be independent of
the rest of the force in regard
| to mess facilities.
The scouting element of the
; main force will travel a day
! ahead of the force in the simu
lated assault, using skis when !
feasible. Each scout will have
his own individual cooking set. j
Dog teams will be used.
Defense of the area to be at
tacked near Mt. McKinley park j
will be established by a some- i
what smaller group of the man- ;
euver troops. '!
Ski-fitted planes of the C.A.A. j!
will be used for aerial supply of ,!
the attacking soldiers. Aerial j
evacuated of the “wounded” 1
also will be attempted.
Plans call for many innova
tions in first aid and medical
procedure, including portable
dispensaries on sleds. The as
sault force will be more than
100 miles from its main supply
base during one stage of the
maneuvers, and various new
methods of evacuation for “cas
ualties” will be attempted.
An elaborate radio communi
cations system will keep all
unots of the froce in touch with
each other and with Alskan De
partment headquarters. There
will be a large radio transmitter
receiver at Talkeetna, a semi
portable set 50 miles from fchere,
and numerous smaller sets.
The assualt force will start
its “attack” about Jan. 12, mov
ing out from Talkeetna with its
tractor train. The movement to
the Mt. McKinley park area is
expected to require about a mon
th, with the maneuvers ending
about March 1.
VALUE OF ALASKA FURS
FURS OVER TWO MILLION
In spite of war conditions that
took many trappers into the arm
ed forces or defense jobs, the
value of fur shipments from Alas
ka in 1943 exceeded that of the
previous year by nearly half a
million dollars. Chiefly, this is
due to a genera) increase in fur
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values and to an open season on
marten which resulted in the
taking of 8,182 marten furs, val
ued at $360,000.
The total fur shipments in
1943 amounted to $2,048,942 as
compared with $1,697,471 for the
1942 calendar year. Topping the
list were 15,146 beaver pelts val
ued at $454,380, closely followed
by 212,352 muskrats valued at
$424,704, and 33,705 mink valued
at $421,312. Arctic white foxes
showed up better than for several
ENEMY AIRCRAFT
PICTURES RIVAL PIN-UPS
CAMP POLK, La.—(API—A re
connaissance company is divorc
ing pin-up art in favor of home
i made posters of enemy aircraft,
i the idea being that they are more
| likely to come in contact with a
Focke-Wulfe than with Betty
Gi'able, and that not even a
Focke-Wulfe in sheep's clothing
can fool the man who’s sketched
and painted one.
Said company Commander Ger
old E. Griffin of Hartford, Conn.:
“These full-color paintings are
plastered all over our diggings,
and when the men relax evenings
with their smokes and cokes, they
play a regular game of identify
ing one another’s pictures. They
learn more in a week that way
than we could teach them in a
month of lecturing.”
SQUIRREL MASCOT
IN THE DOGHOUSE
CAMP VAN DORN, Miss.—(AP>
—The model mascot of the 718th
field artillery battalion is in the
doghouse—or, more properly, the
sauirrel house,
Tillie, six-weeks-old fox squir
r*»l whn “Hrinlrc but
to excess, eats almost anything
but never gluttonizes and who
never has been restricted to quar
ters but makes no attempt to go
AWOL” <onee she was reported
missing but turned up two bat
teries away watching a ball
game); Tillie, the pride and joy
of Cpl. Arthur Woerner of Long
Island City, N. Y., and the entire
718th, has lost her dogtag.
It bears her name and the num
ber 0000000V4.
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