No pissin contest Whitehall. I am not an expert, just a serious student. There is one site as you describe and it was fill for a wharf. It is unknown if it contains Japaneses or Americans. It is very close to the trench where we believe Lt. Bonnyman and his men are buried with a parking lot...
Using the K9 to locate graves on Tarawa was scientifically fairly easy because all the environmental conditions were in our favor. We were subjected to several double blind tests in areas where human remains were known to be located and the dog nailed every one of them.
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I can speak with some authority on this subject because I was a member of the History Flight search team that was on Tarawa for an 10 day mission in February of this year. My assingment was to locate mass graves and cemeteries containing US Marines using my grave detection K9, Buster. We can...