604th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company, 185
Abatao Island (Tarawa Atoll), 134-35
Adriatic, 40
Agence France Presse, 243
Albuquerque Morning Journal, 273
Alexander, Joseph, 7-9, 10, 12, 85, 95, 132, 145, 151-52, 155, 156, 157-58, 224-25, 256
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
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
Barber, Steven C., 23-24, 56, 61, 68-69, 97-99
Barber, William, 181
Battle for Tarawa, The (book), 94
Beaches (Betio Island), 17, 20, 23
Black Beach, 126, 144, 160, 228
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
Bell, Andrew Jackson, 85
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
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
population, 65
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
Blue Diamond Investment Company, 88, 123
Bonniefield (Knoxville residence), xv, 35, 38, 39, 41, 121, 122, 188, 191, 216
Bonnyman, Alexander Jr.
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
field promotions, 107, 110, 111, 117, 232
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
marriage, 86
Medal of Honor, 3-4, 11, 95, 141, photo insert, 157, 190, 191-92, 231-38
National Personnel Records Center and, 94
photos of, photo insert
preparatory school, 41
Princeton University, 7, 35, 42, 97, 165, 208
remains discovered, 207
Santa Rosa, xi, 88, 89, 90, 91-92
travel to Europe, 40
USMC officer candidacy, 93, 107-09
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, 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
Boylan, Rich, 230, 232, 255, 283, 284
Bridgeford, Ed, 125
Buariki (Tarawa Atoll), 166, 185
Burma, xviii, 16, 19, 109, 180, 215
Buster (dog), 99-101, 102, 104, 247, 253
Butaritari (Makin Atoll), 17, 161, 174
Campbell Coal Mining Company, 38
Campbell, Laura Berry, 38
Caroline Islands, 15, 20, 21, 119
Casualty cards, 28, 29, 199, 200, 203
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
Claude, D.K., 132
Clerou, Joseph, 96, 112, 116, 157, 178, 179, 189, 225
Clotfelter, Ralls, 27
CNN, 55, 59, 61, 69, 76, 79, 82, 95, 147, 206, 256
Coleman, Earl (Pappy), 152
Colley, David P., 210
Congressional Medal of Honor Society, 231
Coolidge, Calvin, 41
Corbett, Kantaake Kerry, 131, 133-34, 135-36, 174, 256
Couser, Robert A., 248
Crowe, Henry P. (Jungle Jim), 119, 145-46, 147, 149, 150-51, 155, 160, 163, 190
D’Anjou, Corinne, photo insert, 240
Dashiell, 138
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
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 231
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
Feretti, Elmo, 152
Fiji, 55, 63, 81, 172, 175, 227
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
Freas, Laurel, 222
Freeman, Paul, 98
Frye, John, photo insert, 196, 198, 202, 207, 217, 218, 220, 226, 227, 242, 247, 254
Gilbert Islands, viii, xiii, xv, 3, 14-15, 16-17, 20, 32, 139, 188
Glasgow Herald, 178
Global Positioning System (GPS), 29, 32, 70, 80-81, 83, 102
Goddard, Cecil, 158
Goodrich, James, photo insert, 240, 254
Gordon, Lawrence, 227
Gore, Ben H., 252
Govedare, Paul, 112
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
Heimberger, Edward A. (Eddie Albert), 23
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
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
Horne, Frederick J., 233
Hotel del Coronado, 108
Huffine, Ed, photo insert
Hunconscious, 102
Hylton, Wil S., 176
Iles de France, 40
Imperial War Graves Commission (Great Britain), 48
Indianapolis, 45, 163, 164, 166
Individual Deceased Personnel Files, 28
Island-hopping campaign, 19, 119
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
remains on Betio, 29, 62-63, 130, 197, 202
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
Kelly, Francis W. (Foxhole), 162, 185
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
Ladd, Dean, 96, 140, 196, 231, 254
LCVP (Landing craft, vehicles and personnel; also Higgins boats), 124, 127, 138-139
Lee, John E., 21
Linnington, Michael S., photo insert, 241-42, 247, 255
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
Manchester, William, 155
Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, 50
Mantle of Heroism (book), 94
Marm, Walter Joseph, 248
Marshall Islands, xvi, 16, 20, 21, 27, 119, 124
Marshall, George C., 231
Marshall, William M., 124
McGuire, Bob, 184
McKeon, Alexander (Sandy), 35-36
McKeon, Robert, 35, 86, 182, 209, 248, 255
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
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 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
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
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
photos of, photo insert
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
Osorio, Ramon (Ray), 23, 24, 58, 59, 60, 61-62, 66, 71-72, 75, 79, 81-82, 255
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Convent (Tarawa Atoll), 16, 24, 76
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
Peleliu, 194
Perkins, Wendell, 196
Perry, Wayne, 23, 24, 59, 64, 255
Pioneers (Engineers), 3, 110, 119, 141
Prejean, Alexandra (Andra), 173, 253, 255
Prejean, Alexandra Bonnyman (Alix), xi, xii, 5, 6, 7, 8-9, 10, 121, 122, photo insert, 156, 158, 175, 180, 206, 228, 234, 244, 212-13, 253, 255
Prentice, Glenn, 130, photo insert, 254
President Adams, 112
President Jackson, 110
Presidential Unit Citation, 161
Price, Harry, 126
Prince, John Frederick, 239, 252
Princeton Alumni Weekly, 189, 256
Princeton University, 7, 35, 42, 97, 165, 189, 208, 215
Purple Cross, 48
Pursuit, 138
Rambo, William Edward, 45
Rasdorf, Katherine (Katie), 95, photo insert, 174, 231, 254
Requisite, 138
Redman, Jack, 196
Requiem: November 1943 (poem), 162
Return to Tarawa (film), 23, 98
Reynolds-Middagh, Vicky, 172
Rhea, Frances, 37
Roman Catholicism, xi, 28, 36, 37, 8, 39, 41, 46, 56, 181, 182, 209
Roosevelt, Franklin D., xiv, 19, 106, 107, 109, 164, 231
Roosevelt, Theodore, 48
Rosita Cohuila, Mexico (ranch), 86
Rowlands, Ted, 55-56, 66, 69, 76-77, 79, 82, 95, 206, 256
Ruspoli, Eugenia Berry (Jennie), 1-2
Russ, Michael, 94
Russell, James H. (Jimmie), xvii, 90, 106-107, 121-22, 123, 179, 180, 181-82, 191, 211-12, 213, 214
Rutledge, John, 85
Ryan, Michael P., 144
Saga: Adventure Stories for Men, 155
Saichiro, Tomanari, 17;
Saint Paul, Minnesota, 17, 87-88
Salazar, Chester A., 145, 146, 232
San Antonio, 84-85, 86, 178, 212, 240
San Diego, 54, 97, 107, 107-08
Sanford, Blanche Bell, 85, 86, 181
Sanford Ranch (Mexico), 86, 88, 180, 184
Santa Fe, xi, xv, xvi, xvii, 1, 9, 36, 89-90, 91, 92, 93, 121-22, 125, 178, 180, 181, 182, 190, 191, 192, 212, 214, 234, 251
Santa Fe New Mexican, xvi, 192, 243
Santa Rosa, xi, 88-89, 90-91, 253, 255
Schoettel, John F., 141
Schofield Barracks, 50, 185, 239
Schroeder, 160
Schwimmer, Paul, 102, photo insert, 205, 218, 219, 221, 226, 227, 242, 254
Scurlock, Thomas, 131
Senn, David R., photo insert, 240, 254
Sex Lives of Cannibals, The (book), 22
Shaw, Henry I., 155
Sheppard, Marvin, 96, 147, 154, 157, 162, 189, 254
Sherrod, Robert, xiv, xv, 9, 12, 94, 132, 148, 161, 208
Shibasaki, Keichi, 62, 76, 143, 228
Shiok, Jeremy, 75, 81, photo insert, 173, 256
Shoup, David M., 124, 141, 142, 143, 144, 146, 148, 157, 186-87, 190, 191, 192, 235-38
Sigsbee, 161
Silverstein, Jay, 101, 102, 104, 128-29, 168, 170, 196, 228
Simpson, Jimmy, xvi
Smith, Julian C., 21, 124, 138, 141, 143, 144, 186-87, 190, 236
Snow, Rick, photo insert, 198, 205, 254
Solomon Islands, xiii, 18, 19, 110, 234
Somes, Arthur D. Jr., 131
Sprayberry, James Michael (Mike), 247
Spruance, Raymond A., 163, 164
Stevens, Jonathan, 10
Stone, Rick, 239
Sturm, Jennie, 99
Tabokai, Tekinaa, 72-73, 78, 256
Tarawa on the Web (website), 10, 32, 256
Tarawa’s Gravediggers (book), 29
Tarawa: The Story of a Battle (book), 9, 94
Tennessee Theatre, 180
Tojo, Hideki, 16
Torigoe, John, 55-56, 62, 69, 76-77, 79, 80, 95, 206, 256
Trotter, Mildred, 50
Tucker, Lee, 61, 66, 69, 79, 80, 255
University of Colorado, 212, 255
University of Hawaii, 101, 172
University of Kentucky, 37
University of Tennessee, 163, 205
Until They Are Home (documentary), 98-99
US Army
Air Corps, 84
Graves Registration, 11, 28, 49, 63, 102, 132
Quartermaster General, 50, 185, 187
Special Forces (Green Berets), 196, 206, 211
US Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), 46, 53, 185, 197, 222, 223, 226-28, 239, 241, 242, 247, 251, 253
US Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO), 30, 31, 53, 80, 95, 169, 197
US Joint POW/MIA Accounting Agency (JPAC), 11, 13, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 53, 54, 58, 60-61, 63, 64, 65-67, 70, 72, 79, 80, 83, 95, 97, 98-99, 101-02, 104-05, 128-29, 131, 136, 161, 167, 168-70, 171, 174, 176, 177, 197, 203, 226, 227
US Joint Task Force-Full Accounting (JTF-FA), 52
US Marine Corps
1st Battalion, 2nd Marines, 144
1st Battalion, 6th Marines, 205
1st Battalion, 8th Marines, 149
1st Battalion, 18th Marines, 144, 152
2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines, 127, 144
2nd Battalion, 6th Marines, 166
2nd Battalion, 8th Marines, 96, 119, 142, 146, 147, 163
2nd Battalion, 18th Marines, 119, 141, 142, 146, 163, 232
3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines, 144, 163
3rd Battalion, 8th Marines, 153, 163
6th Marines, 110
amphibious warfare and, xiii, 19, 20-21, 119, 124
Casualty Section, 241
Commandant’s office, 183, 190, 191, 241
Historical Division, viii, 28, 94,
Fifth Amphibious Corps, 118, 190
First Marine Division, 18, 20, 110, 112, 194
Marine Barracks Washington (8th & I), 247-48
Marine Corps Base San Diego (Camp Pendleton), 107-08
Marine Corps Hymn, 247
Museum, 255
Second Marine Division, xiii, 7, 118, 146, 155, 190, 236, 241
US Navy (see individual entries for ship names), xv, 9, 20, 23, 28, 76, 77, 119, 127, 144, 149, 164, 192, 232
Board of Decorations and Medals, 190, 234-35
construction battalions (Seabees), 27, 161, 188
US Peace Corps, 33, 56, 63, 120
Utmost Savagery (book), 7, 9, 85, 94, 132, 152, 224-25
Vandegrift, Alexander Archer (A.A.), 46, 190, 191, 192, 238
Vietnam, 5, 25, 30, 51-52, 53, 65, 68, 103, 170, 171, 196, 236
War Graves Commission (Germany), 47
Washington Post, 192
Watson, Albert (Bert), 112
Webb, Johnie E., 13, 22, 51, 80, 99, 101, 137, 176, 255
Wellington, New Zealand, xiii, 110, 113, 119, 120, 123, 196, 232
Whitman, Burke, photo insert, 248
Whitman, Walt, 39
Winkley, Manley Forest, 226
With the Marines at Tarawa (film), 96
Woodward, Dean, 196
World War I, 15, 38, 40, 47-48, 49, 107, 124, 230
Yamamato, Isoroku, 17
Yasukuni Jinja Shrine, Tokyo
Zeilin, 142