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The Battle of Tarawa was a battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that was fought on 20–23 November 1943. It took place at the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands, and was part of Operation Galvanic, the U.S. invasion of the Gilberts.[3] Nearly 6,400 Japanese, Koreans, and Americans died in the fighting, mostly on and around the small island of Betio, in the extreme southwest of Tarawa Atoll.[4]
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Preparing for the next war can be a hit or miss proposition. The Dept of the Navy was going to disband the Marines, but the Marines countered they would do amphibious operations. The 8th Army Air Force got it srategically wrong, as it believed bombers did not need escort fighters.
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