Tarawa 1943 Binders & Portfolios Cotton placemat

Cotton placemat

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which created the bulk of American aces in World War I

and the battle to come will surely be remembered for all eternity

Tarawa 1943 Binders & Portfolios Cotton placematThe 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