More eloquent than words was the camera's record of the carnage in the Gilberts. Capture of the atolls had cost the U.S.:
>1,092 men killed, 2,680 wounded. Most casualties (95%) were marines who fell on Tarawa's Betio island. The Gilberts' 5,700 Jap garrison was virtually wiped out.
>One warship sunkĀthe torpedoed escort carrier Liscome Bay.* Many went down with her off Makin, including her skipper, Captain Irving D. Wiltsie, and a task force commander aboard her, Rear Admiral Henry M. Mullinnix.
>Four planes, against 46 of the enemy shot down while...
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