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Marines take cover behind a sea wall on Red Beach #3, Tarawa. November 1943.

Geophysics used to find 139 missing WWII Marines

December 10, 2008 rockman Comments Off

Researchers have used ground penetrating radar in addition to hours of painstaking research to identify the graves of 139 US Marines killed on the South Pacific atoll of Tarawa. The Battle of Tarawa was a […]