| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - All told, 4,690 of the island's defenders were killed.[13] The 2nd Marine Division suffered 894 killed in action, 48 officers and 846 enlisted men, with another 84 of the survivors later succumbing to their wounds, of whom 8 were officers and 76 were enlisted men.At the Wikipedia Entry, there is an interesting description of a Neap Tide, and how that small (engineering) miscalculation cost lives
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