08SEP17
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
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Marine Corps Pvt. George F. Patrick, killed during World War II, has now been accounted for.
In November 1943, Patrick was a member of Company D, 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, which landed against stiff Japanese resistance on the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll of the Gilbert Islands, in an attempt to secure the island. Over several days of intense fighting at Tarawa, approximately 1,000 Marines and Sailors were killed and more than 2,000 were wounded, but the Japanese were virtually annihilated. Patrick died on the first day of the battle, Nov. 20, 1943.
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
********************************
Marine Corps Pvt. George F. Patrick, killed during World War II, has now been accounted for.
In November 1943, Patrick was a member of Company D, 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, which landed against stiff Japanese resistance on the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll of the Gilbert Islands, in an attempt to secure the island. Over several days of intense fighting at Tarawa, approximately 1,000 Marines and Sailors were killed and more than 2,000 were wounded, but the Japanese were virtually annihilated. Patrick died on the first day of the battle, Nov. 20, 1943.
08SEP17
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
********************************
Marine Corps Pvt. George F. Patrick, killed during World War II, has now been accounted for.
In November 1943, Patrick was a member of Company D, 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, which landed against stiff Japanese resistance on the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll of the Gilbert Islands, in an attempt to secure the island. Over several days of intense fighting at Tarawa, approximately 1,000 Marines and Sailors were killed and more than 2,000 were wounded, but the Japanese were virtually annihilated. Patrick died on the first day of the battle, Nov. 20, 1943.
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
********************************
Marine Corps Pvt. George F. Patrick, killed during World War II, has now been accounted for.
In November 1943, Patrick was a member of Company D, 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, which landed against stiff Japanese resistance on the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll of the Gilbert Islands, in an attempt to secure the island. Over several days of intense fighting at Tarawa, approximately 1,000 Marines and Sailors were killed and more than 2,000 were wounded, but the Japanese were virtually annihilated. Patrick died on the first day of the battle, Nov. 20, 1943.
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