Show Sea Ceremony for Dead Marines ib K&k r?' ": ''-w-n-f N 1 . ' i If sk fix is V' Ml JiBSkA rr " ;! -r v - V Hag-draped caskets of three U. S. marines who died at Tarawa rest on a hatch aboard a transport as a burial service is conducted. Comrades of the dead stand by with bowed heads. Marines were assigned to take Tarawa island because it was known to he the most heavily fortified of the Gilbert group. Marine losses after 76 hours of fighting on Tarawa approximately equalled losses on Guadalcanal after six months. |