WWII - 1943, Pacific: Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, Japanese POWs & American & Japanese Dead

WWII - 1943, Pacific: Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, Japanese POWs & American & Japanese Dead Naked Japanese Prisoner of War walking along beach; others sitting w/ marines guarding them; washing at edge of water. MCUs. 11:55:34 POWs carry stretcher w/ wounded under guard, others following. MS Japanese on beach wearing pants under guard. MCU questioned. 11:57:18 Group sitting on sand, marines & palm trees behind. 11:57:28 Tractor pulling torpedo past POWs. 11:57:39 Dead Japanese lying in edge of bomb crater; others on ground, near earthen bunkers, some burned bodies. Pit full of bodies. 11:59:07 Partially destroyed tank in water. Pan harbor w/ landing craft in water; bodies floating along shore w/ tide. 11:59:40 Landing craft on sandy beach, many bodies in water & on sand - Marines & Japanese . CUs. Dead Marines beside rubber rafts. 12:03:15 Marines inspecting bodies. WW2; Horrors of War; Nov43; Death;