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tarawa
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What does tarawa mean?
proper noun
- An atoll in the central Pacific Ocean belonging to the state of Kiribati.
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The fact of the Tarawa having been built in America accounted for the crew, boy Jim and all, being such good guessers.
Their lives ended in places called Belleau Wood, The Argonne, Omaha Beach, Salerno and halfway around the world on Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Pork Chop Hill, the Chosin Reservoir, and in a hundred rice paddies and jungles of a place called Vietnam.