Tarawa 1943: The Turning of the Tide (Praeger Illustrated Military History) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Tarawa 1943: The Turning of the Tide (Praeger Illustrated Military History) Book

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 daring amphibious invasion, the Marines of the 2nd Division set out to prove him wrong, overcoming serious planning errors to fight a three-day battle of unprecedented savagery. The cost would be more than 3,000 Marine casualties at the hands of a garrison of some 3,700. The lessons learned would dispel forever any illusions that Americans had about the fighting quality of the Japanese.Read More

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  • 0275982718
  • 9780275982713
  • Derrick Wright
  • 9 February 2004
  • Greenwood Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 96
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