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Historian and author Don Miller discusses how one WWII battle before Thanksgiving would affect the homefront. [1:01] In the Battle of Tarawa (November 20-23, 1943) during World War II, the U.S. began its Central Pacific Campaign against Japan by seizing the heavily fortified, Japanese-held island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands.
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