Tarawa Was Tough

Suss Spence, future of radio as outstanding theater of thrills, for master of mystery and adventure. William N. Rokesen. The story you are about to hear is a true story, a war story. It happened only 14 years ago, but already it seems a little dated, almost quaint, in these days of an ever bigger and bigger bomb.

But it wasn't quaint to the men who lived through it or died during it. For no matter how huge and lethal our weapons become, our real strength lies in men. men, the men of baton and Normandy, of the Argun and Seol, the men who today stand constant guard upon our far flung rampards, the men of the armed forces of the United States of

America. To them, this historical footnote is dedicated. Taroa was tough, starring Mr. John Lund. Fred now. John Lund stars in... ...Haraua was tough. A tail well calculated to keep you in... ...Sauspence. This is the way it was when they went island hopping.

This is the way it was at Arawa. But you can call it Quajalane, or Makin, or Namur, or Los Negros. This is how they fought a war where it's tomorrow, tonight. You're ready to ship out.

You're tough in your heart and you're rare in the gold. But wars move slowly, even the best of them. And so you sit and wait. Crowd it into a shed on a pier in the harbor of Wellington, New Zealand.

You've been laying around this shed for 12 hours now, waiting to get a board you transport. And you'd go box-socket if it wasn't for the radio that the Red Cross fellow rigged up. It's tuned to your favorite station, Radio Tokyo.