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Tarawa 1943 - The Turning of the Tide

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Type: Softcover

Product Line: Campaign Series - World War II - Pacific Asian Theater

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Product Info

Title
Tarawa 1943 - The Turning of the Tide
Publisher
Category
Author
Derrick Wright
Publish Year
2000
Pages
96
Dimensions
8x10x.25"
NKG Part #
2147398946
MFG. Part #
OSPCAM077
Type
Softcover
Series
CAM77

Description

The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted that the Americans could not take Tarawa with a million men in a hundred years. In a pioneering amphibious invasion, the Marines of the 2nd Division set out to prove him wrong, overcoming serious planning errors to fight a 76-hour battle of unprecedented savagery. The cost would be more than 3000 Marine casualties at the hands of a garrison of some 3700. The lessons learned would dispel forever any illusions that Americans had about the fighting quality of the Japanese.