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Tarawa 1943 - The turning of the tide (Paperback)
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Tarawa 1943 - The turning of the tide (Paperback)
Series: Campaign
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Loot Price R486
Discovery Miles 4 860
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Osprey's study of the conflict between Japan and the United States
during World War II (1939-1945). 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.
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