Photos from the Battle of Tarawa

• Foxhole Time on Island 'X'
Cartoons by Jack Kellog, 98th Battalion,
Seabees. From the original copy
owned by Omer L. Richardson, CBMU 549

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• Marine M4A2 Sherman Tank

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• Quonset huts

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• Welcome to Kiribati

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• Battered Quonset huts

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• Remains of an LVT-1 amtrac

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• Wreckage of an LVT-2

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• 8-inch gun mount

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• A dual-purpose, twin-barrel gun

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• A large-caliber round

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• Mortar rounds

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• A Japanese light tank

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• Two amtracs lie where they stopped

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• B-24 engines

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• An LCVP Skeleton

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• A Japanese light tank

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• An LCVP on Red Beach 2

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• Japanese command post

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• Steel pillbox

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• 8-inch gun

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• The easternmost 8-inch gun

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• Buildings erected by a United States
Army Reserve Corps of Engineers team

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• The Chinese ambassador's residence

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• GI JOE® TARAWA Invasion Set

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• GI JOE® Top Secret Orders Accessory Set

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• Blood Reef: TARAWA®

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• Red Beach 2 Sherman Tank

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• Marston Mat

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• Dual Purpose Gun

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• Monument

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• Pat Didlake

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• Puppies

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• John Brown August 2003 - 1

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• John Brown August 2003 - 2

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• John Brown August 2003 - 3

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• John Brown August 2003 - 4

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• John Brown August 2003 - 5

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• 92 Photos of Tarawa on Sony's digital photo website