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Show Battle for Tarawa Toughest in U. S. Marine History fc S. .iSS a ,, S S. J After 76 hours of the bitterest fighting ever to be encountered by the United States marine corps in its 168 years of brilliant battling, the island of Tarawa was wrested from Japanese defenders, most of whom were killed. Lower left: An American tank after it had been disabled. Right front corner of the tank has been torn away and the treads wrecked. Center: Marines inspect a wrecked Jap plane. Top right: Legs of a dead Jap protrude from a pillbox. |