It was one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War, and occasionally the clean-up after fighting, including the internment of corpses, wasn't neat or well organized.
The USMC still has 550 Marines from the Tarawa battle listed as MIA, which means that the bodies have not been located. Hopefully the 139 sets of remains found in this search will reduce that number.
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