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Tarawa

Taking the slim protection that a blasted tree affords, this Marine picks-off the Japs in a pill box. A Jap in a pill box must be shot through the small opening he uses to sight through, but that didn't bother this Marine on Tarawa. November 1943. (Marine Corps)

“A million men cannot take Tarawa in 100 years.”

– Rear Admiral Keiji Shibasaki, Imperial Marine Japanese commander in charge of the defense of Tarawa

It took about 4,000 Marines and Sailors three days.

Chris Carter ,

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