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Sunday 29 August 2010

US searching for remains of WWII Marines on Tarawa

AUDREY McAVOY
The Associated Press

HONOLULU - The Battle of Tarawa was one of the first U.S. amphibious campaigns of World War II. It was also one of the most ferocious.

Thousands of Marines charged the beach, only to be mowed down by Japanese machine gun fire when their boats got stuck on the coral reef. Hundreds of Marines died, and thousands more were injured in just three days of fighting (...)

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