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Description:Here sleep the Heroic Dead of Tarawa. Tarawa has 37 cemeteries. This is the largest. The cemeteries are carefully tended and supervised by a Seabee, Carpenter's Mate Second Class Jack J. Varnum, of 448 Spokane Street, Reno. Nevada. (National Archives, USMC #99547).
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Created by Kenneth Cole