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Ensign Leon Cooper, USN:
Remembering Tarawa
In the Spring of 2006, I had the opportunity to interview Leon Cooper, author of the autobiographical novel, "90 Day
Wonder." The book's title refers to a semi-insulting term used by regular Navy officers to describe their neuvo bretheren
fast-tracked into the service through universities during WW 2. Scorned as they were at first, some of them saw the worst
of the early fighting. Here are the rememberences of one such 90-Day Wonder, Leon Cooper at the Battle of Tarawa, Bloody Tarawa...
(Left-click to play; Right-click to
download)
Tarawa, Part 1
Tarawa, Part 2
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