ABANDONED BATTLEFIELD CROSSES SAVED
Dec 21, 2021
2 minutes
REPORTED AND WRITTEN BY PAUL WISEMAN
THREE HAND-HEWN wooden crosses bearing the names of the dead arrived at the National Museum of the Marine Corps bundled in ribbon, still carrying sand from Tarawa. They’d been left behind, forgotten, after the slaughter on the Gilbert Islands atoll November 20-23, 1943.
Salvaged three
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