As it Happened: Tarawa

44m
Documentary
6

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

Stephen Rashbrook
Narrator

Crew

Ashley Gething
Director, Writer
Finlay Bald
Editor
Owen Parker
Editor
Chris Going
Cinematography
Clare Moriarty
Production Coordinator
Brian Aabech
Executive Producer
Taylor Downing
Producer
Rachel Naughton
Line Producer
Bill Ralston
Camera Operator
Barry Hecht
Camera Operator
Steven Grevemberg
Sound
Steven Faux
Music
Marilyn Freeman
Production Accountant
Tim Ball
Production Director
David Smith
Researcher
Paul Bell
Researcher
Stuart Heaney
Researcher
Úna Shinners
Assistant Production Manager
Marvin Schroeder
Coordinating Producer
Eddie Allas
Coordinating Producer
Ed Niblett
Graphic Designer
Alex Leithead
Research Assistant

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