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Japanese Admiral Laughed Million Americans Can't Take Tarawa in 100 Years Marines Took It In 76 Hrs Discover how ⚔️ the Battle of Tarawa became one of World War II’s fiercest and most defining moments in the Pacific. In November 1943, Admiral Keiji Shibazaki boasted that his island fortress would hold off any invader for “one hundred years.” Yet in just 76 brutal hours, 18,000 U.S. Marines shattered that claim. On a mere 291-acre atoll, they faced some of the most concentrated Japanese defenses

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Mauri awaits you on Kiritimati Island! With new flight services from Tarawa, travel to Kiritimati has never been easier! Kiritimati is a Pacific Ocean atoll in our easternmost northern Line Islands. The name is derived from the English word "Christmas," written in Gilbertese according to its phonology, in which the combination ti is pronounced s. Kiritimati has the greatest land area of any atoll globally, about 388 square km or 150 square miles. Kiritimati comprises over 70% of the total land a