Map locating the Tarawa Atoll in the Gibert Islands in the Pacific Ocean, east of Indonesia. The map also locates the Marshall and Mariana Islands, which are northwest of Kiribati. 10 miles ...

Tarawa atoll, Kiribati, is seen in a 2004 file photo. AP It was a fatal mistake. The island was so heavily fortified with concrete bunkers that a Japanese commander boasted ...

For more than three years, Leon Cooper has sought to pressure authorities into removing litter from Red Beach on the Pacific atoll called Tarawa -- site of one of the United States’ bloodiest ...

Steven C. Barber, photographed in Henderson on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010, is a Summerlin resident who has made a documentary, "Return to Tarawa," about all the dead Marines left on that island during ...

The brothers fought with the Marines in a fierce assault against the Japanese Army on Betio, part of the Tarawa atoll in the Pacific. Justin Lehew, a retired Marine, is now chief operating officer ...

Aboard one of the many troop transports plowing the long sea furrows to Tarawa, and later in the hell of Betio, ... the little bird-shaped island that was the main fortification of Tarawa atoll.

Betio Island, white and wasted at the end of a palmy green bay, was more than ever a base of war. But elsewhere in the Tarawa Atoll the sturdy brown Gilbertese had picked up again an old, familiar ...

Pfc. Paul D. Gilman of Belen was 19 in 1943 when he died on the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands while serving with the 2nd Marine Division. RELATED.