华盛顿 — 75年前的今天，也就是1943年11月20日，第二次世界大战太平洋战区的美军在位于吉尔伯特群岛塔拉瓦环礁上的贝蒂欧岛打响了塔拉瓦战役 ...

The Battle of Tarawa (code name Operation Galvanic) only lasted three days but was listed as one of the bloodiest battles in the 20th century. It was the first American offensive in the central ...

TARAWA, KiribatiTARAWA, Kiribati — Master Sgt. James M. Fawcett got on his knees and gently mixed his father’s ashes with sand on the same Pacific beach where the elder Fawcett fought his way ...

Where: Tarawa Atoll is part of what then was known as the Gilbert Islands and today is called the Republic of Kiribati. It’s a collection of 32 pancake-flat coral atolls. The battle was fought ...

On a remote Pacific sandbar, replete with the ravages of war, a small group of veterans, volunteers and archeologists are doing their best to keep the enduring promise of “no man left behind.” ...

The Battle of Tarawa on the island of Betio was one of the most savage battles of World War II, if not all of American history. Nov. 20 marks its 68th anniversary. With the intensity of fighting ...

The Battle of Tarawa was a disaster from the start. In November 1943, during their first big foray in the central Pacific Ocean, US forces invaded this atoll in the Gilbert Islands, hoping to ...

Barber met Cooper at the Los Angeles Book Fair two years ago when they discovered they both knew actor Eddie Albert, who fought with Cooper at the three-day battle of Tarawa in the Pacific Theater ...