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by Eric Hammel Although they barely registered on the map, Tarawa and the Marshall islands were important in breaking Japan’s control of their part of the Pacific. In this pictorial tribute, Hammel takes the reader along with the Marines landing on Betio Island in the Tarawa Atoll. Three days of intense fighting left 1,000 American servicemen dead and 2,000 wounded, and that was only the beginning of the bloody campaign. Over 300 diagrams and black-and-white photos record the fight in graphic detail, as Hammel provides the narrative that chronicles the courage and heroism of the men who broke Japan’s grip and destroyed their airfields on these remote islands. |
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Tarawa and the Marshalls