one hundred of the Americans killed were never repatriated. In November 2013, the remains of one American and four Japanese were recovered from "what was considered a pristine site preserving actual battlefield conditions and all remains found as they fell." The remains of 36 Marines, including 1st Lt. Alexander Bonnyman Jr., were interred in a battlefield cemetery whose location was lost by the end of the war. The cemetery was located in March 2015. On 26 July 2015, the bodies were repatriated to the United States, arriving at Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam, Hawaii. In March, 2019 a mass grave of Marines, reportedly from the 6th Marine Regiment, was discovered on Tarawa. The remains of 22 Marines recovered from the mass grave arrived at the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii on 17 July 2019. Gallery See also USS Tarawa, for U.S. Navy ships named for the Battle of Tarawa With the Marines at Tarawa, a 1944 short documentary directed by Louis Hayward, which won the 1945 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject Alexander Bonnyman Jr. References Informational notes Citations Bibliography Masanori Ito, Sadatoshi Tomiaka and Masazumi Inada Real Accounts of the Pacific War, vol. III Chuo Koron Sha1970. Potter, E.B. and Nimitz, Chester (1960) Sea Power: A Naval History Prentice Hall Rice, Earle (2000) Strategic Battles of the Pacific Lucent Books Russ, Martin (1975) Line of Departure: Tarawa Doubleday Smith, General Holland M., USMC (Ret.) (1949) Coral and Brass New York, New York: Scribners Further reading External links Tarawa on The Web Animated History of The Battle of Tarawa Defense of Betio Island, Intelligence Bulletin, U.S. War Department, March 1944. The Assault of the Second Marine Division on Betio Island, Tarawa Atoll, 20–23 November 1943 Eyewitnesstohistory.com – The Bloody Battle of Tarawa Marines in World War II Historical Monograph: The Battle for Tarawa Slugging It Out In Tarawa Lagoon "Tarawa" cat survivor adopted by U.S. Coast Guard Oral history interview with John E. Pease, a U.S. Marine Veteran who took part in the Battle of Tarawa from the Veterans History Project at Central Connecticut State University National Archives historical footage of the battle for Tarawa Amphibious operations involving the United States Articles containing video clips