56 reactions · 14 shares | Battle of Tarawa Seventy-six years ago; Marines assaulted the island of Betio on the Tarawa Atoll. The Japanese commander said it would take one million men one hundred years to conquer Tarawa. It took the Marines three days. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Gloria Lepko) | II Marine Expeditionary Force | Facebook
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Seventy-six years ago today, the Marines landed at Tarawa. During this three-day battle, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps lost more than 1,600 men. Today, we honor them. | U.S. Marine Corps
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In November, 1943, the USS Enterprise supports a two pronged attack in the Pacific at the WW2 Battle of Tarawa. | HISTORY
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Japanese Admiral Laughed Million Americans Can't Take Tarawa in 100 Years Marines Took It In 76 Hrs Discover how ⚔️ the Battle of Tarawa became one of World War II’s fiercest and most defining moments in the Pacific. In November 1943, Admiral Keiji Shibazaki boasted that his island fortress would hold off any invader for “one hundred years.” Yet in just 76 brutal hours, 18,000 U.S. Marines shattered that claim. On a mere 291-acre atoll, they faced some of the most concentrated Japanese defenses
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1M views · 10K reactions | On this day in 1943, U.S. troops stormed the Japanese-held Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands. The bloody, 76-hour Battle of Tarawa is remembered as the first major American offensive in the central Pacific. For the full story, watch this clip from The Pacific War in Color: Island Hopping. | Smithsonian Channel Aviation Nation | Facebook
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