It was within the Tarawa atoll, on a tropical sandbar the size of the National Mall, where U.S. Marines and Navy sailors confronted the forces of an emboldened imperial Japan in 1943. The Battle ...

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Julian Smith, commander of the Second Marine Division, declared the enemy on Tarawa "wiped out." Source: US Naval Institute, US Marine Corps By November 23, 1943 — after 76 hours of fighting ...

The remains were discovered in March on the Pacific atoll of Tarawa, which was the scene of a three-day battle with the Japanese in November 1943. US defence department officials plan to transport ...

Marine Sergeant David Quinn was killed in battle on Nov. 20, 1943, and 75 years later he is coming home to New Hampshire. Quinn died during the three-day Battle of Tarawa, which resulted in 1,000 ...