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Eighty years ago was a momentous time in world history. 1943 saw titanic struggles on three continents. Great armies, navies and air forces battled to define mankind’s future. Two years earlier, in January 1941, the war in Europe had already raged for over a year. In his Jan. 6 State of the Union speech, President Franklin Roosevelt articulated the “Four Freedoms”: freedom of speech and of religion, and freedom from want and fear.
People are also reading… In commenting on the resilience of his troops under very trying circumstances, General Dwight Eisenhower said, “I have observed very frequently that it is not the man who is so brilliant who delivers in time of stress and strain, but rather the man who can keep on going indefinitely, doing a good straightforward job.” This straightforward job resulted in the Allies pushing the Germans and Italians out of Africa by May 1943.
Across the world, in the Pacific, the army, navy and marines had begun island hopping in the war against Japan. Marine and army units finally prevailed in the Battle of Guadalcanal by February 1943 after six months of fighting. The next major target in November of 1943 was the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands. The small coral island of Betio was defended by 4,600 Japanese troops, deeply dug in after a year of strong defensive preparations.
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