Shaffer
11-13-02, 08:22 AM
In December 1943, members of the U.S. Marine Corps 2nd Division arrived in Waimea on the Big Island from a costly victory over the Japanese at Tarawa atoll in the Gilbert Islands.
Their new home in Waimea became known as Camp Tarawa. As the 5th Division came to train at the camp, the battle-hardened veterans of the 2nd Division passed on lessons learned at Tarawa. That was credited with helping the 5th Division win the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945.
The best-known image from Iwo Jima, Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal's photograph of five Marines and a Navy man raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi, has now sparked a Camp Tarawa exhibit continuing to the end of the year at Parker Ranch headquarters in Waimea.
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Their new home in Waimea became known as Camp Tarawa. As the 5th Division came to train at the camp, the battle-hardened veterans of the 2nd Division passed on lessons learned at Tarawa. That was credited with helping the 5th Division win the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945.
The best-known image from Iwo Jima, Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal's photograph of five Marines and a Navy man raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi, has now sparked a Camp Tarawa exhibit continuing to the end of the year at Parker Ranch headquarters in Waimea.
http://starbulletin.com/2002/11/10/news/index4.html