As it Happened: Tarawa
Tarawa was the most strongly defended island in the Pacific which the Japanese boasted that a million Americans couldn’t take the island in one hundred years. On Tarawa the Marines faced their sternest test yet.
Cast
Crew
Brian Aabech
Executive Producer
Rachel Naughton
Line Producer
Ashley Gething
Writer
Taylor Downing
Producer
Marvin Schroeder
Coordinating Producer
Ashley Gething
Director
Clare Moriarty
Production Coordinator
David Smith
Researcher
Owen Parker
Editor
Eddie Allas
Coordinating Producer
Chris Going
Cinematography
Marilyn Freeman
Production Accountant
Stuart Heaney
Researcher
Tim Ball
Production Director
Bill Ralston
Camera Operator
Úna Shinners
Assistant Production Manager
Steven Grevemberg
Sound
Barry Hecht
Camera Operator
Steven Faux
Music
Paul Bell
Researcher
Finlay Bald
Editor
Ed Niblett
Graphic Designer
Alex Leithead
Research Assistant