Word: sherrod
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TARAWA: THE STORY OF A BATTLE-Robert Sherrod-Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
...water and the sea wall on Tarawa atoll, there was 20 feet of sand and brown-green coral; those 20 feet (for a distance of about 100 yards) were the U.S. beachhead. With the 3,000 Marines, dead and alive, on that tiny beachhead was TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod, who went ashore with the first waves. Notebook in hand, Sherrod crouched behind the sea wall and jotted down notes for a notable close...
Just read . . . "Best-Covered Story" by Robert Sherrod [TIME, Dec. 13]. He says reporters "never try to rush onto a beachhead typewriter in hand." I wonder where Richard Johnston...
...marine gunner's remark to your Mr. Sherrod was just simple truth. In these days you can't pick a better way. The quicker we all realize it the better for our country...
With this in mind, I cannot defend nor justify Robert Sherrod's report ["After Two Years"] on the battle of Tarawa. ... In this particular report, whom did TIME think they were benefiting...