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This is a short book. It deals with only five of the many battles that were fought during the Pacific War, yet American
casualties resulting from these battles totaled almost one-third of the nearly 300,000 casualties suffered by US forces during
that conflict. These battles need not have been engaged, as the author explains.
Discovery Channel will show "Return To Tarawa-The Leon Cooper Story" beginning April,
2009. z They
have been given an exclusive license for the US and Canada for four years. I've retained the right to show my documentary
elsewhere in the world--also the right to sell the DVDs anywhere--list $20.00 z
"Bravo...Strong and clear and moving...May
it move our forgetful government..." -
Ed Harris, Oscar- nominated actor, narrator.
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On a personal note...
The author and many others probably owe our lives to the pilots who are shown here.
These pilots, from the aircraft carrier USS Lexington, are celebrating their victory over a
flight of Japanese planes they had destroyed in aerial combat. The Japanese planes, based in the nearby Marshall Islands,
had been enroute to Tarawa to bomb and strafe the landing forces. They were intercepted by the Lexington pilots just as they
neared Tarawa,in the Gilbert Islands. None of the Japanese planes got through. As a landing craft Naval officer, I was leading
a wave of more than two hundred Marines into the beaches of Betio,in Tarawa, on the first day of the battle.
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