More eloquent than words was the camera’s record of the carnage in the Gilberts. Capture of the atolls had cost the U.S.: >1,092 men killed, 2,680 wounded. Most casualties (95%) were marines who fell ...

TARAWA, Kiribati -- On the beach at "Bloody Tarawa," where U.S. Marines died by the hundreds, the broken bottles, crushed boxes and plastic bags are piling up by the millions. Rotting under the ...