Allied and Japanese forces battled over a 4-day period in 1943, turning the western tip of Tarawa into a charred crisp
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Shaped like a fishhook with a turquoise-blue lagoon in its center, Tarawa is a curved strip that extends for over 50 kilometers
Sixty-six years ago, the Pacific island atoll of Tarawa was a World War II battlefield of billowing black smoke and death's stench