During the Battle of Tarawa in the Pacific War, U.S. Marines stormed Japanese positions on Tarawa Atoll on November 21, 1943. U.S. Marines sniped and killed a Japanese soldier. Petty Officer Jennings poses with his gun by the side of a dead Japanese soldier lying in a ditch. It was suggested that this Japanese sniper had the option of fighting and dying in battle with the Americans rather than being taken prisoner.
The Battle of Tarawa was a World War II battle in the Pacific that broke out between November 20 and 23, 1943. The bodies of dead Japanese soldiers were scattered everywhere on Betio Island. The bodies of many Japanese soldiers killed in action were scattered in a maze of positions, trenches, and fortifications. Japanese soldiers died in battle after refusing to surrender to the U.S. forces. Japanese soldiers who committed suicide shot themselves to death by pulling the trigger of their rifles with their toes. He held a hand grenade to his body and detonated it to explode to death. Tanks and flamethrowers blew up and incinerated Japanese soldiers' hideouts, killing them in battle.
About 18,000 U.S. Marines were sent to occupy the small, fortified Japanese island of Betio. Due to fierce resistance from some 4,500 Japanese soldiers hiding on Betio Island, the U.S. Marines landed on Betio Island on November 20. After some 76 hours of bloody fighting, the Marines finally captured Betio on November 23. In just three days of fighting at the Battle of Tarawa, more than 1,000 U.S. soldiers were killed in action and about 2,000 were wounded. The sheer number of battle casualties left the American public stunned at the number of casualties that occupied Betio Island. Japanese soldiers were annihilated, about 4,500 were killed in action, and about 146 Japanese soldiers and 129 Korean forced laborers were prisoners of war.
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