Name: Tarawa 1943: The turning of the tide (Campaign)
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Author: Derrick Wright

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Tarawa 1943: The turning of the tide (Campaign)

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Physical Book

Publisher

Osprey Publishing

Author

Derrick Wright

Language

English

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Paperback

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ISBN

1841761028

ISBN13

9781841761022

Synopsis "Tarawa 1943: The turning of the tide (Campaign) "

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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