{"id":51030,"date":"2019-06-26T20:56:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T20:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/06\/26\/graves-of-world-war-ii-marines-sailors-likely-found-on-remote-pacific-island-of-tarawa\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:45:08","slug":"graves-of-world-war-ii-marines-sailors-likely-found-on-remote-pacific-island-of-tarawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2019\/06\/26\/graves-of-world-war-ii-marines-sailors-likely-found-on-remote-pacific-island-of-tarawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Graves of World War II Marines, sailors likely found on remote Pacific island of Tarawa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A nonprofit organization that searches for the remains of U.S. servicemen lost in past conflicts has found what officials believe are the graves of more than 30 Marines and sailors killed in one of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2019\/03\/06\/remains-of-wwii-marine-killed-on-betio-to-be-buried-in-oklahoma-hometown\/\" target=_blank> bloodiest battles of World War II.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A team working on the remote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2017\/03\/28\/military-digging-up-battle-of-tarawa-remains-from-hawaii-cemetery\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific atoll of Tarawa <\/a>found the graves in March, said Mark Noah, president of History Flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The remains are believed to belong to Marines and sailors from the 6th Marine Regiment killed during the last night of the three-day<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2017\/03\/28\/military-digging-up-battle-of-tarawa-remains-from-hawaii-cemetery\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Battle of Tarawa.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Defense POW\/MIA Accounting Agency expects to pick up the remains and fly them to Hawaii in July, said John Byrd, director of agency\u2019s laboratories. Military forensic anthropologists will then work to identify them using dental records, DNA and other clues.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2018\/10\/23\/marine-killed-in-wwiis-tarawa-atoll-battle-to-be-buried-in-new-mexico\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/181023-A-ZZ111-001.JPG.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Marine killed in WWII\u2019s Tarawa Atoll battle to be buried in New Mexico<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">A U.S. Marine from New Mexico who was killed during fighting on a Pacific island during World War II will be buried Friday in his hometown.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 990 U.S. Marines and 30 U.S. sailors were killed in the 1943 Battle of Tarawa after the U.S. launched an amphibious assault on the small island some 2,300 miles southwest of Honolulu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marines and sailors quickly encountered Japanese machine-gun fire when their boats got stuck on the reef at low tide. Americans who made it to the beach faced brutal hand-to-hand combat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. military buried its men in makeshift cemeteries where they fell. But Navy construction battalion sailors removed markers for these graves when they hurriedly built runways and other infrastructure to help U.S. forces push farther west across the Pacific toward Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">History Flight has recovered the remains of 272 individuals from Tarawa since 2015, when it began excavating under a contract with the Defense Department, Noah said. He estimates there are at least another 270 to be found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tarawa is now part of the Republic of Kiribati. Its government allowed History Flight to demolish an abandoned building in its latest search. 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