Allen, Randolph, 196, 202
America’s Fighting Heroes (comic strip), 155
American Society of Forensic Odontology, 242
America’s Fighting Heroes (comic strip), 155
Amey, Herbert R., 127
Arizona, 50
Arlington National Cemetery, 131, 243, 264
Armed Forces Network, 61, 68
Associated Press, 93, 168, 262, 273, 280
Astore, William, 237, 256, 284
Atkinson, Anne Bonnyman (Rooney), 182, 275
Atlanta, 26, 38, 178, 188, 195
Atlanta Journal, The, 258
Atlantic, Birmingham, and Atlanta Railroad, 37
Atlantic Monthly, The (also The Atlantic), 237, 261, 265, 274, 284
Australia, 16, 18, 19, 20, 57, 63, 64, 110, 119, 131, 135-36, 173, 201, 231, 243
Bairiki (Tarawa Atoll), 24
Baker, Kristen N., photo insert, 170-72, 173, 176, 196, 197-200, 202-204, 207, 217-18, 220, 221-223, 225-226, 227, 242, 247, 254
Balcer, James A., 30
Bale, Ed, 44-45, 96, 141, 254
Barber, Steven C., 23-24, 56, 61, 68-69, 97-99
Barber, William, 181
Bataan Death March, 18, 231
Battle for Tarawa, The (book), 94
Beaches (Betio Island), 17, 20, 23
Black Beach, 126, 144, 160, 228
Green Beach, 126, 144
Red Beach 1, 126, 139-40, 141, 149, 160
Red Beach 2, 126, 141, 142, 144, 149, 175, 198
Red Beach 3, 126, 140-41, 145, 147, 149
Belcher, Bill, 103-05, 128, 129, 137, 167-68, 171, 197, 199, 255
Belgium, 40, 65, 103
Bell, Andrew Jackson, 85
Bell, Blanche Browne, 85, 182
Bent Prop Project, The, 26, 53, 95, 104, 174
Berry Highland Memorial Cemetery, 188, 246, 248
Berry, Thomas, 37
Betio Island (Tarawa Atoll), viii, xiii, xiv, 3, 9, 10, 11, 14, 27, 30,
airstrip, 17
battle relics, 75-76
bombardment of, 127, 164
Bird’s Beak, 141
cemeteries (see also under Cemetery, by number), 26, 162, 186
conditions, 22, 32-33, 57, 60, 65, 68, 72, 77, 73, 132, photo insert, 201
forced abandonment of, 73
fortification of, 17-18, 20,
population, 65
reef, 22, 74, 133
scale of, 34, 187
Betio Lodge (also Betio Lodge II, King’s Hotel), 56-57, 199, 205, 219
Biddle, Francis, 109, 179, 192
Bikenebeu (Tarawa Atoll), 131, 134
Bloody Tarawa (book), 94
Blue Diamond Coal Company, xv, 43, 86-87, 92, 184, 215
founding, 38
secretaries, 179, 182
Blue Diamond Investment Company, 88, 123
Bonniefield (Knoxville residence), xv, 35, 38, 39, 41, 121, 122, 188, 191, 216
Bonnyman, Alexander Jr.
arrest, 125, 232,
Battle of Tarawa, 142, 144-45, 147, 150-54
birth, 38
Blue Diamond Coal Company, 42-43
burial (Betio), 203
Catholicism, xii, xviii, 36, 39, 41, 116, 126
cause of death, 221-24
daring, 35, 84, 114, 215
death, 97, 156, 161,
field promotions, 107, 110, 111, 117, 232
football, 41-42
funeral, 247-49
Guadalcanal, 110-12
Guadalupe Mining Company, 88-89, 106-07, 123
Hunting and fishing, 38, 39, 40, 86, 90, 116, 165, 184
identification of remains, 240-42
leadership, 108, 111, 116, 179
malaria, 113-114, 125
marriage, 86
Medal of Honor, 3-4, 11, 95, 141, photo insert, 157, 190, 191-92, 231-38
Minnesota, 87-88
New Zealand, 110, 112
National Personnel Records Center and, 94
Navy Cross, 97, 190-91, 236
photos of, photo insert
preparatory school, 41
Princeton University, 7, 35, 42, 97, 165, 208
remains discovered, 207
San Antonio, 84-86
Santa Rosa, xi, 88, 89, 90, 91-92
travel to Europe, 40
US Army Air Corps, 84-85
USMC officer candidacy, 93, 107-09
Virginia, 42-43
Bonnyman, Alexander Sr., xii, xv, xviii, 36-38, 40, 41, 43, 46, 86, 87-88, 92, 107, 109, 121, photo insert, 179, 180, 183, 187-88, 191, 192, 208, 228, 235, 238
Bonnyman, Ann Toner, 36
Bonnyman, Anne, 248
Bonnyman, Anne (Rooney), 182, 188
Bonnyman Bowling Center, xix, 208
Bonnyman, Brian, 255
Bonnyman, Frances Berry, xii, xvii, 1, 5, 37-38, 39, 41, 46, 121-22, 180, 182, 215, 228, 237-38
Bonnyman, George, 36
Bonnyman, George Gordon, xviii, 39, 41, 107, 109, 184-85, 188-89, 209, 214, 215-16, 228
Bonnyman, George Gordon, Jr., 255
Bonnyman, Gertrude, 189
Bonnyman, Isabel Ashe, 41, 180
Bonnyman, Josephine “Tina,” xi, xii, 5, 87, 122, 180, 181, 212-13
Bonnyman, Josephine Bell (later Russell), xi-iii, xvi, xvii, xviii, 85-88, 89, 90, 92, 93, 106, 107, 108, 109, 112, 114, 121-22, 123, 126, photo insert, 154, 178, 180-81, 182, 190, 191, 213-14, 219
Bonnyman, Margot, 40, 188
Bonnyman, Peter, 178
Bonnyman’s Bunker, ix, 7-8, 76-78, 96, 136, 146-47, photo insert, 150-54, 157, 162-63, 158, 201, 224, 225
Boos, Bernard A. (Barney), 112, 162
Bordelon, William, 9, 140, 141, 146, 190, 232, 236
Borich, John, 152, 155, 156, 157, 189, 190, 224
Boulder, 1, 13, 32, 33, 210, 212
Bowden, A.J., 196
Bower, Bill, 210-11, 254
Boylan, Rich, 230, 232, 255, 283, 284
Bridgeford, Ed, 125
Buariki (Tarawa Atoll), 166, 185
Buchner, Drew, 129, 254
Burma, xviii, 16, 19, 109, 180, 215
Burns-Philp pier, 145, 264
Bussa, George, 145, 251
Buster (dog), 99-101, 102, 104, 247, 253
Butaritari (Makin Atoll), 17, 161, 174
Camp Tarawa, 7, 157
Campbell Coal Mining Company, 38
Campbell, Laura Berry, 38
Campos, Jose, 89-90
Campos, Joseph, 91, 256
Carlson, Evans, 17, 18, 161
Caroline Islands, 15, 20, 21, 119
Carter, Robert Jr., 199, 251
Casualty cards, 28, 29, 199, 200, 203
Cecilia, 141, 144
Cemetery 25 (Betio), 99, 102, 104, 130, 132, 134, 203, 226
Cemetery 26 (Betio), 168, 196, 198, 202
Cemetery 27 (Betio; also 8th Marines Cemetery #2), 11, 63-65, 100, 102, 104-05, 128, 145, 163, 167-68, 177, 186, 199-200, 202, 220, 223, 225, 226, 227-28, 230, 239, 240, 241, 242-43, 247
Cemetery 33 (Betio), 199
Central Identification Laboratory Hawaii (CIL, also CILHI), 32, 50, 51, 53, 63, 65, 101, 103, 129, 167, 169, 197, 199, 226, 251
Chamberlin, William, 147, 150-51, 155, 157, 190
China Gal, 44, 141, 144
Clampitt, Max, 96, 148, 254
Claude, D.K., 132
Clerou, Joseph, 96, 112, 116, 157, 178, 179, 189, 225
Clerou, George, 96, 225, 254
Clotfelter, Ralls, 27
CNN, 55, 59, 61, 69, 76, 79, 82, 95, 147, 206, 256
Cobra, 74, 141, photo insert
Coleman, Earl (Pappy), 152
Colley, David P., 210
Colorado, 141, 151
Congressional Medal of Honor Society, 231
Coolidge, Calvin, 41
Cooper, Leon, 23, 254
Cooper, George H.L., 142, 145
Corbett, Chuck, 131, 135
Corbett, Kantaake Kerry, 131, 133-34, 135-36, 174, 256
Courts of the Missing, 9, 187
Couser, Robert A., 248
Covert, Dennis, 32-33, 255
Critchley, Walter, 200, 252
Crowe, Henry P. (Jungle Jim), 119, 145-46, 147, 149, 150-51, 155, 160, 163, 190
D’Anjou, Corinne, photo insert, 240
Daigle, C.J., 196, 247, 254
Dashiell, 138
Dawson, Scott, 136, 256
DeBlanc, Jefferson J., 233-34
Dee, Rosa, xi, 122
Dent, J.L. Dent Jr., 147
Denver Post, 8
Devereux, James P.S., 125
Doolittle, James (Jimmy), 19, 210
Dostie, Paul, 63, 99-100, 102, 254
Duluth News-Tribune, 192
Dunedin, New Zealand, 112
Earhart, Amelia, 126
Edinger, A.E., 9
Edson, Merritt A. (Red Mike), 146, 148, 149
Eickenhout, Louis, 63, 64, 70
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 231
Ellice Islands, 20, 119, 127
Ellis, Earl Hancock (Pete), 21
Elrod, Roy Holland, 96, 125, 150, 151, 153-54, 254
Evans, Clayton A. (Gus), 1, 212
Evans, Frances Bonnyman (also Fran Bonnyman), v, xi, xii, xiii, xiv-xv, xvii, 1, 6, 8, 45, 86, 87, 88, 112, 122, photo insert, 157, 191, 192, 212, 248
Farkas, Don, 112
Faulkner, William, 41, 229
Feretti, Elmo, 152
Fiji, 55, 63, 81, 172, 175, 227
Flores, Daniel, 92, 255
Forlorn Hope, 151, 155, 158, 160, 163
Forrestal, James, photo insert, 192
Fort Lauderdale, xii, xvi, 122
Fox, Gregory, 64-66, 67, 70, 75, 79-80, 81, 101, 255
France, 48, 51, 109, 169, 243
Freas, Laurel, 222
Freet, Fred Evert, 200, 252
Freeman, Paul, 98
Frye, John, photo insert, 196, 198, 202, 207, 217, 218, 220, 226, 227, 242, 247, 254
Gallipoli, 20, 136
Germany, xiv, 15, 47, 65
Gilbert Islands, viii, xiii, xv, 3, 14-15, 16-17, 20, 32, 139, 188
Glasgow Herald, 178
Glenn, Harlan, 130-32, 254
Global Positioning System (GPS), 29, 32, 70, 80-81, 83, 102
Goddard, Cecil, 158
Gomez, Don Jr., 210, 255
Goodrich, James, photo insert, 240, 254
Gordon, Lawrence, 227
Gore, Ben H., 252
Govedare, Paul, 112
Great Britain, 15, 16, 47
Greene, Thomas N., 144
Griswold, Tracy, 112, 114, 126, 127, 142
Ground-penetrating radar (GPR), 25, 29, 32, 99, 176, 199
Guadalcanal, xiv, 7, 17, 18, 20, 54, 97, 111-12, 113, 114, 115, 116, 118, 123, 161, 178, 196, 244
Guadalupe Mining Company, 88, 90, 106, 123, 214
Hammel, Eric, 21, 94, 152, 156, 233, 256
Hannah, Dick, 94
Haraldson, Palmer Sherman, 200, 205, 202
Hart, Elwin, 96, 140-41, 247, 254
Hatch, Norm, 96, 150, 152, 254
Hathaway, William T., 211, 255
Hausle, Matthew, 68
Hawkins, William Deane, 9, 138, 140, 141, 146, 190, 232, 236
Hayes, Lawrence C. Jr., 144
Hazard, Kentucky, 38
Hedges, Chris, 158, 256
Heimberger, Edward A. (Eddie Albert), 23
Helen (Betio Island), 14, 126
Hemingway, Ernest, 211
Hewitt, Anthony, 173, 177, 255
Heywood, 116, 119, 125, 127, 140
Hiete, Kurt, 11, 12-13, 24, photo insert, 173, 176, 256
Hildebrand, Jim, 31
Hill, Harry, 126
Hinokua, Mareta, 78-79, 256
Hiroshima, xix, 49, 166
History Flight, Inc., 11, 24-25, 28-30, 31, 45, 53, 56, 61, 67, 69, 70, 72, 80-81, 82-83, 98, 99, 101-03, 104-05, 129-130, 131, 132-133, 136-37, 168, 170, 172, 173, 176, 194, 197, 198, 201, 202, 205, 206, 222, 223, 225, 226, 227-28, 239, 240, 241, 242, 247, 251
Hitchens, Christopher, 93
Holcomb, Thomas, xvi
Holland, Frank, 139
Hollywood Reporter, 99
Honolulu, xiii, 9, 11, 32, 69, 169, 170, 172, 185
Honolulu Star-Advertiser, 243
Hood, Clara, 182, 184
Horne, Frederick J., 233
Hotel del Coronado, 108
Hubert, James J., 199, 252
Huffine, Ed, photo insert
Hunconscious, 102
Hylton, Wil S., 176
Iles de France, 40
Imperial War Graves Commission (Great Britain), 48
India, 16, 109, 184, 215
Indianapolis, 45, 163, 164, 166
Individual Deceased Personnel Files, 28
Island-hopping campaign, 19, 119
Italy, 40, 51, 187
Iwo Jima, xix, 188
Jackson, Gilder D. Jr., 108, 109, 111, 154
Japanese forces on Tarawa
American public underestimation of, xiv, xv
Betio, fortification of, 17-18, 164
counterattacks, 155-56, 160, 224
Gilbert Islands, takeover of, 14, 16-17
Korean laborers and, 161
Makin Atoll and, 17
relation to Gilbertese, 73-74
remains on Betio, 29, 62-63, 130, 197, 202
rikusentai, 16, 77, 141, 143
shelling of American forces, 138
deaths, 49
Johnson, Hattie Y., 241
Johnston, Richard W., 116, 120, 125, 144
Joint Base Harbor-Hickam, 199
Jowdy, Laura S., 231
Joyce, Reid, photo insert
Kain, LeRoy J., 188-89
Kelly, Francis W. (Foxhole), 162, 185
Kines, Emmett L., 218, 252
Kipling, Rudyard, 48
Kiribati Airways (also Air Pacific), 24, 54, 55
Kiribati, Republic of, 33-34, 57, 62, 81, 130, 131, 173, 175, 194
Board of Tourism, 201
Kiribati Shipping Services, Ltd, 64, 102, 104, 128, 197, 228
Knoxville, xii, xv, xvi, 1, 5, 9, 35, 38, 39, 41, 46, 86, 90, 122, 126, 163, 165, 178, 180, 182, 184, 188, 189, 191, 198, 208, 212, 215, 235, 243, 244, 247, 248
Knoxville Journal, 163
Kobuti, Kautebiri, 25, 56, 58, 64, 72, 80, 198, 254
Korean War, 44, 161
Ladd, Dean, 96, 140, 196, 231, 254
Laos, 65, 103
Largey, Lou, 141, 151
LCVP (Landing craft, vehicles and personnel; also Higgins boats), 124, 127, 138-139
Lee, John E., 21
Leslie, Alan, 138, 254
Linnington, Michael S., photo insert, 241-42, 247, 255
Lipinski, Daniel, 10, 30
Liscome Bay,161
London Daily Express, xiv
Lone Palm Cemetery (Betio), 186
Lost Graves of Tarawa, The, 29
LVTs (landing vehicles, tracked; also known as amtracs), 124, 127, 138-39, 140, 144, 146
MacArthur, Douglas, 18-19, 20, 231
Makin Atoll, 18, 161, 174
Malaria, 113, 125, 154, 184
Manchester, William, 155
Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, 50
Mansfield, James, 202, 252
Mantle of Heroism (book), 94
Mariana Islands, 16, 20
Marm, Walter Joseph, 248
Marshall Islands, xvi, 16, 20, 21, 27, 119, 124
Marshall, George C., 231
Marshall, William M., 124
Mary’s Hotel, 60, 75, 135
Mathies, Elmer Jr., 141, 252
Matsonia, 110, 115
Matthews, Hugh B., 109, 111
McGuire, Bob, 184
McKeon, Alexander (Sandy), 35-36
McKeon, Robert, 35, 86, 182, 209, 248, 255
Mele Bay, xiii, 119, 124-25
Merrill’s Marauders, 180, 215
Micronesia, 15, 21
Miller, Marc,
55-58, 59, 61, 62, 64, 66, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 81, 98, 131, 254
Mississippi, 161
Mooney’s Cottages (Florida), xii, 122
Moore, Fae V., 252
Moore, Katherine Davis, 45, 164, 165
Moore, Kyle Campbell (Kasey), 41, 163-65
Moore’s Marauders, 98
Morrows, Jim, 196
Mosteller, Michael, 142, 145
Murphy, John, 112
National Archives and Records Administration, 33, 230, 231, 234, 255
National Catholic Register, 178
National Cemetery of the Pacific (The Punchbowl), 7, 9, 10, 63, 253
National Personnel Records Center, 95-96
Persons of exceptional prominence (PEP), 96
Navy Construction Battalion (Seabees), 27, 161, 166
Navy Cross, 97, 109, 154, 161, 190, 191, 192, 233-234, 236
New Amsterdam, 40
New Guinea, 16, 19, 51, 103, 170, 171
New Hebrides, 119, 125
New York Sun,178
New York Times, xiii, 47, 99, 110, 164, 176, 178, 194
New York Tribune, 178
New Zealand Coastwatchers Memorial, 63, 70
New Zealand High Commission, 130
Newcomb, Obie, 142, 145, 146, photo insert, 153, 162, 179, 188
Niehoff, Harry, 7-8, 152, 155-59, 189-90, 221, 224
Nielsen, Roger K., 198, 252
Nierle, James E., 234, 255
Nimitz, Chester W., 19-20, 190, 226
Niven, Bill, 10, 11, 29, 31, 77-78, 161, 167-68, 200, 255
Noah, Mark, 10-11, 12, 24-25, 27-28, 31, 56, 59, 61-62, 63-64, 67, 70, 72, 80-82, 83, 97-98, 99-100, 101-02, 102-03, 104-05, 128-130, 166, 167, 170, 173-74, 176, 194-95, 200-201, 218, 220, 226, 227, 241, 247, 254
banned from Tarawa, 61, 70
Barber, Steven C. and, 98
Belcher, Bill and, 103-05, 128,
Cemetery 27 and, 11, 63-64, 100-101, 102, 104-05, 128, 168, 200-201, 218, 226, 227
fundraising, 104
Honorary Marine, 246
New York Times Magazine article, 176, 194
Niven, Bill and, 31, 167-68
photos of, photo insert
pilot, 24, 30
relationship to JPAC/DPAA, 31, 67, 80-83, 97-98, 128, 176
youth, 194
Nordman, Ernest (Todd), 67, 68-69, 79, 255
Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, 50
O’Neill, William, 115, 162, 185, 186
O’Rourke, Helen, 182
Oak Hill (plantation), 2
Oetjen, Charles E., 199, 252
Ornelas, Victor, 96, 115, 254
Osorio, Ramon (Ray), 23, 24, 58, 59, 60, 61-62, 66, 71-72, 75, 79, 81-82, 255
Otto, James D., 200, 252
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Convent (Tarawa Atoll), 16, 24, 76
Pacific Wrecks, 52, 95, 104
Palau, 26, 103
New Guinea (also Papua New Guinea), 16, 19, 51, 103, 170, 171
Parsons, Hillary, photo insert, 205, 218, 220-22, 223, 225-26, 227, 242, 247, 254
Pearl Harbor, xii, xiv, xix, 14, 16, 18, 35, 163, 166, 238
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