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(WHTM) — abc27 salutes Richard H. Novinger. Of Loysville, he served in World War II from 1942 to 1945. He served in the Gilbert Island, Kwajalein, Tarawa and Okinawa Invasions. After World ...

When he graduated, Bomersback was put on the USS Sheridan (APA-51). The USS Sheridan would head to Wellington, New Zealand, before making its way to the Gilbert Islands for the Battle of Tarawa.

As the American offensive prepared to claim the coral atoll of Tarawa in November of 1943, they were confident that their more potent force and resources would be enough to defeat the outnumbered ...

In the Battle of Tarawa, the U.S. Navy used amphibious vehicles to transport Marines across a reef in the Gilbert Islands.

The battle for Tarawa, from Nov. 20 to Nov. 23, pitted some 4,000 Japanese defending the island of Betio against more than 18,000 U.S.Marines.

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It is two and a half miles long, a third of a mile wide—about as big as Tarawa’s Betio. Some 50 miles north along the beads lies Roi, 7/10 sq. mi.—just large enough for an airfield.

While the Army’s 27th Division cleared the island of Makin to the north, U.S. Marines of the 2nd Marine Division aimed for Betio in the Tarawa atoll (It took a lot of Smiths to make it happen.