Talk:Battle of Tarawa

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(3 August 2006 - 31 August 2006)

The table for this article seems to say that around 3,600 troops took part on the Japanese side, of which 4,600 were casualties. DJ Clayworth 13:15, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)

The Image:Kr-map.png is overlapping the text "the defenses, 1,000 Japanese and 1,200 Korean workers" in Mozilla firefox, not in IE. Someone who actually knows how to edit text should fix this. 210.49.16.218 16:46, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Snow Falling on the Cedars. I think this was where Ishmael Chambers lost his arm?141.157.227.141 23:38, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tarawa

" 8-inch guns taken from the defenses at Singapore" - The fact these were taken from Singapore is apparently a myth, so ive removed it for now. If anyone finds evidence or sources to the contrary, please put it back.

[edit] Magnetic Mine??

There is a statement that implys that the japanese forces used a Magnetic Mine to knock out a tank during the first day of the invasion, If this was the japanese version of the German Magnetic anti tank mine then this is auctaly not true, as the mine did not have a magnet on it, it was expected that the sodgler would simply hold the mine aginst the target and wait for it to explode. I would like to see the research on what auctaly happened to this petuiclar tank. Kera Dahlin, added Friday aug 3 2007

Tarawa rulez —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.208.38.206 (talk) 19:37, 3 September 2007 (UTC)