COSTLY SQAURE MILE.
• TARAWA " a square mile of coral fringed to’’' accounted for the following U.S. casualties* MARINES 1,026 Killed, 2,557 woiu> ded* IN the ?6 hours fighting the Marinas suffered ?2 more deaths than in all their four months on Guadalcanal. The dead on Tarawa wore ohly 42? fewer than the army men killed in the 38-day campaign for Sicily*
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Dozerdust, Volume 2, Issue 8, 12 February 1944, Page 5
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61COSTLY SQAURE MILE. Dozerdust, Volume 2, Issue 8, 12 February 1944, Page 5
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