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	BONKERS IN BONRIKI by John Laming
		The decision was made to recapture Tarawa and its vital airstrip, and in November 1943, United States marines landed on the beaches of Betio.
		Betio had been cleaned up after the war, with explosives experts from Britain, Australia and America dealing with the tons of unexploded mortar bombs, naval, and artillery shells that had been bulldozed into the remains of the island.
		Before moving on to the Western Pacific region, the Americans built a longer coral strip at Bonriki which was 25 miles from Betio and this runway is now the airport gateway to Tarawa.
	www.b737.org.uk /bonriki.htm (1713 words)

	Tarawa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		South Tarawa, the southern part of the atoll but Betio, is now the capital island of the Republic of Kiribati.
		But the Parliament is on Ambo islet and some administrations are on Betio or Bikenibeu, and even one on Kiritimati.
		Betio Islet includes the main port through which copra and pearl shell are exported.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tarawa,_Kiribati (360 words)

	Betio (Tarawa)
		Betio is the first island on the left (W) separated by about two miles to Bairiki.
		Betio Island, probably the most populous in Kiribati, has the port, shipyard and main power station.
		Betio has a large number of war relics, after fierce fighting during the major marine assault.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /provinces/kiribati_betio.html (848 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tarawa Atoll, specifically Betio Island, was selected as the target of the main assault because it contained an airfield and the bulk of the Japanese defenses.
		While these raids took out some of Betioþs guns, their most significant benefit was that they caused the Japanese to shoot off ammunition.
		Betioþs northwest shore was divided into Red Beach 1, 2 and 3, respectively, from west to east.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/wwii/facts/tarawa.txt (2505 words)

	PBS - The Voyage of the Odyssey - Track the Voyage - Kiribati
		We are currently in Betio harbor, southwest Tarawa, which was the scene of the one of the bloodiest, American landing assaults during the World War II, Pacific campaign.
		Although only 3,800 yards wide, acre for acre, Betio was described as the most formidable fortress in the world.
		Betio was cut in 2 by the marines using two tanks and a handful of troops, Green beach was cleared for a full landing.
	www.pbs.org /odyssey/odyssey/20010115_log_transcript.html (937 words)

	War In The Pacific
		Betio at the extreme south end of the island of Tarawa was the headquarters of the Government and Catholic mission, as well as the main shipping port for overseas vessels.
		Betio was surrounded by a 5 ft wall built up with rocks and large coconut logs.
		Betio had been shelled from the sea whilst ships were bombed from the air.
	www.angelfire.com /ar/janer/egan11.html (6264 words)

	The battle of Tarawa
		In all, the first day on Betio had been very costly for the 2nd Division- amphtracks and Higgins boats littered the lagoon, wounded marines everywhere, and dead bodies and parts of bodies everywhere: out of 5,000 men, 1,500 were dead or wounded.
		Upon arriving at Betio that day, General Holland Smith ordered both the Stars and Stripes and the Union Jack to be raised over Betio(for Betio was to revert to the British as a Pacific trust after the war).
		In the 76-hour fight for Betio, 1,056 marines and sailors were killed, died of wounds or were missing and presumed to be dead.
	users.telenet.be /dave.depickere/Text/tarawa.html (1434 words)

	WW2Gyrene Tarawa Overview
		Betio Island, code-named HELEN, is about 2 miles long from west to east, and about 800 yards across at its widest point.
		Betio was defended by the Japanese 3rd Special Base Defense Force, trained in amphibious infantry combat.
		Betio Island, Tarawa Atoll, was captured shortly after noon, November 23 (West Longitude Date), following a desperate enemy counterattack which was crushed by troops of the Second Marine Division.
	www.ww2gyrene.org /WW2Gyrene_Tarawa_overview.htm (662 words)

	Alternate Brain
		On 20 November 1943, the Second Marine Division assaulted Betio (BAY-shio) Island in the Tarawa Atoll of the Gilbert Islands, at that time a British Protectorate, located in the Central Pacific a little northwest of the point where the Equator crosses the International Dateline.
		Betio is two miles long by a half-mile wide, 291 acres, less than half the size of New York City's Central Park.
		The Marines were to assault from the lagoon side of Betio rather than the seaward side, to avoid Japanese coastal guns sited in that direction.
	alterx.blogspot.com /2004/11/tarawa.html (1169 words)

	October 2003 - second half
		The islet of Betio is the commercial center of Tarawa.
		Over 1,000 US Marines died taking this beach from the Japanese when their landing craft faltered on the reef and they were required to wade ashore almost a half mile through a hail of machine gun fire.
		Monument on Betio to the servicemen of the US Marines and Navy who gave their lives to free Tarawa from the Japanese occupation.
	www.bigel.net /photogallery/october_2003_more.htm (1692 words)

	Kiribati: Tarawa Massacre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Betio, on the South﷓west corner of Tarawa, was the scene of one of﷓the fiercest American landing assaults during the Pacific War, on November 24, 1943.
		At the corners, of Betio Islands, and at various points along the shore, fourteen coastal defence guns from 80mm to 8 inch calibre, sited to cover the beaches, were also being provided with bombproof shelters for the crew and ammunition.
		The centre of Betio was largely occupied by the 4,000 feet airstrip begaun in October 1942.
	www.wysiwyg.co.nz /kiribati/tarawa1.html (3442 words)

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		BETIO - NU2 : [ 2.2 2.3 2.4] 4.38%
		BETIO - Mf : [ 1.1 1.3 1.5] 14.08%
		BETIO - SN4 : [ 0.1 0.1 0.2] 19.60%
	www.nodc.noaa.gov /woce_V2/disk09/tidalcon/fastmode/h002cfd1.txt (550 words)

	USMC Wars and Conflicts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		While these raids took out some of Betio's guns, the most significant benefit was that they caused the Japanese to shoot off ammunition.
		On Nov. 20, Betio's defenders had only 4,800 rounds of 75mm and 127mm antiaircraft ammunition, and 15,000 rounds of 13mm machine gun bullets.
		Betio's northwest shore was divided into Red Beach 1, 2 and 3, respectively, from west to east, a 500-yard pier marked the boundary between Red Beach 2 and Red 3 and extended north into the lagoon just beyond the hmgmg reef.
	www.leathernecklane.com /marine/history/tarawa.htm (1815 words)

	W. Thomas Smith Jr. on Tarawa on National Review Online
		Tarawa was a sharply curving chain of islands with a heavily defended southwest tip, the isle of Betio.
		Known to Marines as "Bloody Betio," the island was bristling with naval guns, mortars, machine guns, and 5,000 crack Japanese marines under the command of rear admiral Keiji Shibasaki.
		Opposing Shibasaki were elements of the U.S. V Amphibious Corps under the command of major general Holland M. "Howlin' Mad" Smith, a hard-bitten Alabama-born leatherneck whose nickname stemmed from his unforgiving approach to failure on the part of subordinates.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/smith200311200839.asp (1022 words)

	BETIO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Introduction: The American capture of the island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll proved to be a series of mistakes and mishaps.
		Betio was two miles long and a half mile wide at its widest.
		Betio is declared secured and the first American aircraft land on the island's airstrip.
	history.acusd.edu /gen/WW2Timeline/Betio.html (1624 words)

	Stan Gajda - Tarawa (Betio)
		On the ocean side of Betio when the US cleaned up the island after the battle, they [US forces] dumped vast quantities of ammunition just over the reef.
		One of four of the 8" coastal guns on Betio, Tarawa.
		From contemporary accounts it appears that a group of Japanese soldiers managed to escape from Betio during the Battle of Tarawa in November 1943 but were pursued by the American marines throughout the length of Tarawa until they were trapped at this location near Buariki.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /people/visitors/gajda/tarawa.html (912 words)

	Stan Jersey's Battle of Tarawa
		On Betio, Shoup at 1415 was pleased to receive an unexpected report from Major Ryan that several hundred Marines and a pair of tanks had penetrated 500 yards beyond Red Beach One on the western end of the island.
		"Betio would be more habitable," reported Robert Sherrod, "if the Marines could leave for a few days and send a million buzzards in." Working parties sought doggedly to identify the dead; often the bodies were so badly shattered or burned as to eliminate distinction between friend and foe.
		The battalion's pack howitzers were initially intended to augment fires on Betio; when that island finally fell, the artillerymen turned their guns to support the 2d Battalion, 6th Marines, in clearing the rest of the islands in the atoll.
	www.tarawaontheweb.org /StanJersey/usview.htm (16405 words)

	HyperWar: The Battle for Tarawa [Chapter 3: The Second Day, 21 November 1943]
		With the coming of dawn on the second day of the fight for Betio, sharp bursts of small arms fire served notice that the bitter action of the day before was to continue with unabated vigor.
		Prize on Betio was the airfield, crossed on the second day of the battle by the 1st and 2d Battalions, 2d Marines.
		On Betio there were few who were willing to go on record and say that the crisis was past until late in the afternoon of the second day.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USMC/USMC-M-Tarawa/USMC-M-Tarawa-3.html (5796 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tarawa Atoll, specifically Betio Island, was selected as the target of the main assault because it contained the bulk of the Japanese defenses in the Gilberts.
		Surrounded by a barrier reef, Tarawa's Betio Island presented a serious challenge to amphibious landing craft, which would hang up on the reef if there wasn't a sufficient tide depth to allow them to cross.
		Tides in the Gilberts were notoriously irregular, so prediction of whether the Marines could benefit from high tide at the time of the assault was almost impossible.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/wwii/news/taranews.txt (947 words)

	TARAWA - IMAGES OF WAR
		These contemporary images are a reminder of both the brutality and futility of this terrible war and even though these scars are gradually disappearing, the memory of the war and lessons to be learned will hopefully never be forgotten.
		The Gilbertese living at Betio, Bairiki, Teaoraereke and Banraeaba left their villages and went to live at Eita, Abatao and Tabiteuea further up the islands.
		If the visitor is lucky enough, he may be at Tarawa on the night of a flying-fish drive, when islanders paddle their outriggers or boats to stations at spaced intervals around the lagoon.
	www.janeresture.com /wartarawa/new_page_4.htm (5278 words)

	Operation Galvanic: Remembering Tarawa 60 Years Later (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The imposing Betio defenses consisted primarily of thoroughly integrated direct fire weapons overlooking a myriad of obstacles designed to stop the enemy at the coastline.
		The construction crews had fortified many of the coastal defense guns and both heavy and medium machine guns in concrete pillboxes and bunkers with walls up to eight feet thick and then overlaid these with coconut logs and sand—there were literally hundreds of such positions.
		Despite far-reaching public dismay over the casualties at Betio and pleas for a Congressional inquiry into the “Tarawa fiasco,” the tenacity and sacrifice demonstrated by Marines during the conflict simultaneously lifted the Corps to new levels in positive public perception.
	www.usna.com /News_Pubs/Publications/Shipmate/2003/11/Operation.htm (2882 words)

	Legion of Valor Museum
		On November 20, 1943, elements of two regiments attacked the island of Betio, situated in the Central Pacific at the intersection of the equator and the international date line.
		Some historians state Betio was a military "Shoot out at the O.K. Corral" with three days of close-in fighting, no backup, and no quarter given.
		As the Island of Betio was less than one square mile, the 72-hour battle is said to have been the bloodiest battle per square yard in World War II.
	www.legionofvalor.com /Museum/bcrumpacker.php (494 words)

	New Page 1
		Captain S.J.Kim escape twice from Police custody at the Betio Motel, one on 5th February 1999, Captain S.J.Kim was transferred back to Betio Prison and remained there until the actual hearing of the case by the High Court.
		The guards were armed with one (1) teargas pisto; with four (4) gas cylinders, four respirations, two (2) walkie-talkies and one (1) V.H.F. the tear gas pistol with the gas cylinders were kept in an unlocked cupboard inside the wheelhouse.
		That an inspection of the Betio PS Diary Report written up by the ASO shows that in a number of instances, matters requiring attention such as request for more manpower, repair of the portable raio etc. were not attended to and that the portable radio remained unrepaired from 13/1/99 to the time of the escape.
	www.geocities.com /gotaway2002 (5328 words)

	Tarawa - The Aftermath
		Many Marines were killed in the water during the assault on Betio’s north beaches, their bodies drifting out to sea on the tides.
		Consequently, the atoll contained approximately 43 separate burial sites, the majority of which were located on Betio Island.” The report could not account, however, for single, hasty graves that were dug in the heat of battle and became unmarked during subsequent action.
		The Marine and Navy monument that now stands on Betio should have a bronze tablet added to one face, reading, “In Memory of the Hundreds Who Rest Here Today.” The whole island is, in fact, a cemetery.
	www.tarawatheaftermath.com /News-BetioCemetary.html (6592 words)

	Across the Reef: The Marine Assault of Tarawa (D-Day at Betio, 20 November 1943)
		Crowe's LT 2/8 was up against some of the most sophisticated defensive positions on the island; three fortifications to their left (eastern) flank would effectively keep these Marines boxed in for the next 48 hours.
		Johnson survived this incident, but he was killed in subsequent fighting on Betio, one of 217 Marine Corps sergeants to be killed or wounded in the 76-hour battle.
		Shoup finally reached Betio at noon and established a command post 50 yards in from the pier along the blind side of a large Japanese bunker, still occupied.
	www.nps.gov /wapa/indepth/extContent/usmc/pcn-190-003120-00/sec4a.htm (3590 words)

	Dioramas Discussion Group - missing-lynx.com
		Betio (Tarawa) was about as small an island as the Marines ever attacked.
		The Marine plan for Betio was to land artillery on the undefended adjacent islands, and soften Betio up for a couple of days.
		During the three day battle, 75mm howitzers were landed on Betio and the 105s did go to the adjacent islands, firing down the long axis of Betio.
	www.network54.com /Forum/message?forumid=78970&messageid=1011505474 (209 words)

	Tarawa on the Web
		During the battle some of these tanks roamed Betio while others were dug in as immobile pillboxes.
		These tanks Colorado and China Gal would be a threat Onuki reports he was nervous at the appoarch of these two tanks so close to his position.
		The location of the tank on the right is either on the western part of Betio or inland from Red Beach 3.
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/Quarters/5820/japtank.htm (1392 words)

	Cody Enterprise: News about Cody, Wyoming, and Yellowstone Country
		Harry Jackson, renowned Cody artist and a veteran of the Nov. 20, 1943, Marine assault on Japanese-occupied Betio Island, Tarawa Atoll, spoke Monday at the Cody VFW Hall.
		Later this week he plans to depart for the island, which is in Micronesia, to deliver the keynote address at a ceremony commemorating the 60th anniversary of the battle.
		In addition to laying the foundation for military commanders to plan other successful amphibious assaults, the battle for Betio may rank among the bloodiest battles of all time in terms of how many combatants were killed in a limited space and time, Jackson says.
	www.codyenterprise.com /articles/2003/11/12/news/news1.txt (498 words)

	Tarawa and Makin
		The major Japanese outposts were on Betio, a bird-shaped island in the southern part of the chain; and Makin, which was raided early in 1942 by US Marines.
		They had transformed Betio into a fortress of unparalleled intricacy, with coconut log bunkers cemented with crushed coral and intersecting zones of fire.
		The survivors of Betio were sent to train the replacements in how to fight and win in island warfare.
	www.worldwar2database.com /html/tarawa.htm (780 words)

	Kiribati: Tarawa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		South Tarawa has three urban centres (Betio, Bairiki and Bikenibeu), and is more or less now completely settled from Bonriki (where the airport is) all the way down to Bairiki.
		Betio is a good place to look for your mosquito net before you head towards the outer islands.
		Betio is connected to Bairiki, by a Japanese Aid causeway, stretching for several kilometres.
	www.wysiwyg.co.nz /kiribati/tarawa.html (1838 words)

	CAMPXX
		The wind is howling tonight at Camp Betio.
		Camp Betio is a ¾-square-mile city of tents.
		The chow hall, doctor's office, operations center and sleeping quarters are all in a tent of some kind.
	www.press-enterprise.com /newsarchive/2003/03/14/1047600905.html (777 words)

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