THE WAR
A DEADLY CALLING
THURSDAY, AUGUST 6 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM
In fall 1943, after almost two years of war, the American public is able to see for the first time the terrible toll the war is taking on its troops when Lifepublishes a photograph of the bodies of three GIs killed in action at Buna. Despite American victories in the Solomons and New Guinea, the Japanese empire still stretches 4,000 miles, and victory seems a long way off. In November, on the tiny Pacific atoll of Tarawa, the Marines set out to prove that any island, no matter how fiercely defended, can be taken by all-out frontal assault. Back home, the public is devastated by color newsreel footage of the furious battle, including the bodies of Marines floating in the surf, and grows more determined to do whatever is necessary to hasten the end of the war.
