Many criticized the strategy and tactics at Tarawa, but the Navy and Marine Corps drew lessons from the battle that were applied throughout the war, and Betio's airfield supported operations ...

He was buried the next day with military honors in the U.S. Marine Cemetery on Betio Island, where the U.S. service members who died in and after the Battle of Tarawa were interred. According to a ...

She was the second ship to be named after the Battle of Tarawa, fought during World War II. Reacting to the destruction of USS Tarawa, China- controlled Global Time wrote that it was an exercise ...