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U.S. Marine killed in WWII accounted for 8 decades after sending ominous letter to family

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Sgt. Robert F. Van Heck , 25 , of Chicago , was killed in the Battle of Tarawa in 1943 .

He was part of a force that tried to secure the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll of the Japanese -held Gilbert Islands .

About 1,000 U.S. Marines and sailors were killed during the battle, and about 350 remain unaccounted-for.

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