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JOSEPH MONTI
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
11-16-2003

Recalling the battle of Tarawa
By JOSEPH MONTI
Date: 11-16-2003, Sunday
Section: OPINION
Edtion: All Editions.=.Sunday
Column: A COMMUNITY VOICE

AS WE PREPARE TO celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday with family and friends, let us recall the 60th anniversary of the invasion of Tarawa, Nov. 20, 1943.

In our official military history it is written that with the exception of Iwo Jima, Tarawa's beaches "were better protected against a landing force than any encountered in any theater of war throughout the Second World War." Tarawa was part of the Gilbert Islands. Its 5,000 defenders, mainly Japanese, had fortified the island with steel and ...

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