The Battle of Tarawa, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, took a heavy toll on American forces and led to outrage at home.

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The battle for Tarawa, from Nov. 20 to Nov. 23, pitted some 4,000 Japanese defending the island of Betio against more than 18,000 U.S.Marines.

The Tarawa was the second Navy ship named for a Pacific island that was the site of a brutal battle fought by Marines in World War II.

Some 18,000 Marines fought this amphibious battle and took the island after three days, something that a Japanese admiral claimed would have taken a million men 100 years, according to Camp ...

U.S. Marine Corps Pvt. Dale R. Geddes, 21, of Grand Island died 75 years ago on Nov. 20, 1943, during World War II’s Battle of Tarawa. His remains were reinterred in Grand Island on Aug. 22 ...

Four-motored Liberators ranged far out over the Pacific last week, striking at Tarawa Island in the Jap-controlled Gilberts and at Nauru Island 400 miles west. These attacks were called ...

As the American offensive prepared to claim the coral atoll of Tarawa in November of 1943, they were confident that their more potent force and resources would be enough to defeat the outnumbered ...

And so Adm. Chester Nimitz began to eye the tiny Gilbert Island atoll of Tarawa (usually pronounced “TARE-a-wuh” by Americans, but perhaps more properly “tuh-RAW-wah”). The Japanese ...