Garfield County News | 1943-12-16 | Page 3 | Battle for Tarawa Toughest in U. S. Marine History |

Type	issue
Date	1943-12-16
Paper	Garfield County News
Language	eng
City	Panguitch
County	Garfield
Rights	No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title	Battle for Tarawa Toughest in U. S. Marine History
Type	article
Date	1943-12-16
Paper	Garfield County News
Language	eng
City	Panguitch
County	Garfield
Page	3
OCR Text	Show Battle for Tarawa Toughest in U. U S. S Marine History y 14 is' is k r LT tt w 1 i q I M r x or After After 76 hours of the bitterest fighting ever to be encountered b by the thc United States marine corps in its 5 years cars of brilliant battling the island of Tarawa was wrested from Japanese defenders most of whom were killed Lower left lert An American tank after it had bad been disabled Right front corner of the tank has bas peen been een torn away and the treads wrecked Center Marines l inspect a wrecked Jap plane Top right Legs of a dead Jap protrude from a pillbox
Reference URL	https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s62z22r7/3299164