Robert F. Van Heck, 25, of Chicago, was part of a force that tried to secure the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll of the Japanese-held Gilbert Islands, according to the Defense POW/MIA ...
"The capture of Tarawa knocked down the front door to the ... opening up with their coastal-defense guns at 5:07 a.m. US warships returned fire and then halted in expectation of strikes by US ...
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USS Tarawa sent to ocean floor in Rim of the Pacific exerciseFunded by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering ... in Vietnam after its 1967 ...
Beyond the lagoon the ocean stretched to the horizon. Marawa, karawa, tarawa—sea, sky, land. These are the ancient trinity of the people of Kiribati (kee-ree-bahss), the I-Kiribati. But the ...
Robert F. Van Heck, 25, of Chicago, was part of a force that tried to secure the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll of the Japanese-held Gilbert Islands, according to the Defense POW/MIA ...
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