Tanks in Hell: A Marine Corps Tank Company on Tarawa

Winner of THE GENERAL WALLACE M. GREENE, JR. AWARD for outstanding nonfiction

In May 1943 a self-described “really young, green, ignorant lieutenant” assumed command of a new Marine Corps company. His even younger enlisted Marines were learning to use an untested weapon, the M4A2 “Sherman” medium tank. His sole combat veteran was the company bugler, who had salvaged his dress cap and battered horn from a sinking aircraft carrier. Just six months later the company would be thrown into one of th…