Tanks in Hell
by Oscar E. Gilbert
"A Marine Corps Tank Company on Tarawa"
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Tanks in Hell Book Details
War:
World War II
Perspective:
Tanks
Military Unit:
US Marine Corps
True Story:
Yes
Biography:
Yes
Region:
Pacific
Published Date:
2015
ISBN13:
9781612003030
Tanks in Hell Book Description
This study of a specific Sherman M4A2 tank company (Charlie Company, 2nd Tank Battalion, 2nd Marine Division) uses official documents, memoirs, interviews with veterans as well as personal and aerial photographs to follow Charlie Company from its formation to tracing the movement, action, and loss of individual tanks in the Battle of Tarawa in 1943.