Robert Van Heck, who died taking part in the Battle of Tarawa over the Gilbert ... More than one-quarter of the 12,000 Marines in the battle were killed or wounded, many were never found.

Harry Hill, who command the task force attacking Tarawa, called Betio "a little ... More than 1,000 Marines and sailors had been killed, with nearly 2,300 wounded. Of the roughly 4,800 Japanese ...

Against Roi and Namur on the north went Nebraska-born Major General Harry Schmidt’s new Fourth Marine Division. Tarawa had shown ... filled with their own dead. The pillboxes had to be cleaned ...

For 80 years, the family of a Kansas City 18-year-old killed during WWII was ... 12 miles off the coast of the Tarawa Atoll ...