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17 hours ago - Leon Cooper, Who Carried On a Battle for Tarawa, Dies at 98. Image. Leon Cooper in the 2009 documentary “Return to Tarawa,”
in which he revisited the beach where he had ferried Marines. He found
that it had become a dump, strewn with trash, and fought to have it
restored.CreditCourtesy of Steven ...WWII vet fights second battle of Tarawa | Boulder City Review
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Jan 25, 2017 - Last month I began to tell the story of Leon Cooper, a World War II veteran who took part in the bloody battle of Tarawa.
A California resident, in 2008 he paid a visit to the Pacific island
and said he could not believe his eyes. The sunny beach that in 1943 had
been turned into a battlefield had deteriorated ...