Diary November 20, 1943

11-1943, Diary WW2, War Diary, Year 1943 / 1 minute of reading

US Marines Tarawa island — US Marines dash forward with satchels of TNT to destroy a Japanese bunker on heavily fortified Tarawa island.

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, November 20, 1943:

Sea War

Pacific – US MARINES LAND ON TARAWA AND BETIO (Gilbert Islands): 18,600 Americans engage 4,836 Japanese and Koreans until all organized resistance ends November 23.
6,472 infantry land on Makin (Japanese resistance ends November 23). Unsuccessful employment of 3 battleships at Betio prompts major revision of pre-invasion bombardment techniques in later operations.

Tarawa Losses:

	Dead	Wounded	Captured
Japanese and Korean	4,690	-	146 (only 17 Japanese)
US	1,009	2,101	-

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My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.

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