i was the first cameraman to get on the beach at tarawa, motion picturewise. i met up with a stillman. a corporal. and the two of us stayed together as a team through the whole operation. and tarawa was important for this reason. because of an order that churchill gave during world war i to make a landing, that was very, very poorly done, the british, the new zealanders and the australians were really annihilated. this was at tripoli. and so -- no, i'm mistaken. not tripoli. i'll think of it in a little bit. calipoli. and churchill almost lost his job because of that. he was the equivalent of secretary of the navy for the british. and ever since that day, none of the military, army, air force, anybody thought that landing against a heavily fortified beachhead would be successful so, therefore, they didn't train for it. but we did train for beach landings. and you've heard of holland m. smith. he believed in the concept so he trained. and that's why we were adept at landing. md when we landed at tarawa, we landed against a heavily fortified beachhead. and it wa