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The sacrifices made back then by those Brave Souls have been lost on today’s Society.
There is absolutely no appreciation of where we would be if Men like this didn’t answer the call.
Over the last decade, History Flight has deployed search and recovery teams all over the world to locate missing servicemen. History Flight deploys cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary remote-sensing methodologies to find the loss sites of American Servicemen still missing.
The relentless search continues for WWII MIAs on several fronts – and although Tarawa has been a major focus, we have also been responsible for several recoveries in Europe. The biggest recovery, by far, has been unprecedented success in the central Pacific nation of Kiribati, where the Battle of Tarawa was fought on the island of Betio in November 1943. More than 1,000 US Marines and Sailors were killed during the 76-hour battle, and more than 2,000 more were wounded. The dead were buried in several battlefield cemeteries on the island as the surviving fighting force moved on westward.
The burial date is on my calendar. I’m only 20 minutes North of Bountiful.
That’s a long time to wait to come home.
RIP, soldier.
Welcome home, RIP Marine. Thank you.
My Dad, who served in CBI Theater of War, lost his best friend on Tarawa.
I can imagine this kid was 19 years-old, the war started, and he simply said: “my brothers and I are going to do our part.” Probably the same with all the young men in town. No questions asked.
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Soldier.