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	Tarawa - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Tarawa, atoll of Kiribati, in the central Pacific Ocean.
		The Battle of Tarawa was a battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, largely fought from November 20 to November 23, 1943.
		Tarawa is an atoll in the central Pacific Ocean, previously the capital of the former British colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Tarawa.html (170 words)

	Battle of Tarawa
		The islet group of Tarawa, about 2,400 miles southwest of Hawaii, was held by the Japanese from 1941 to 1943 during World War II, and it fell to U.S. Marines of the Second Division after a bloody 76-hour battle.
		Tarawa's military significance lay in its strategic position as the entrance of the U.S. push through the central Pacific to the Philippine Islands.
		The Battle of Tarawa was partly a product of poor U.S. planning, a battle in which marines waded endlessly to shore — at low tide — over razor-sharp coral under withering firepower.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1752.html (1002 words)

	Kiribati - Historical Tarawa
		Campbell was on Tarawa and I remember being impressed both by the manner in which everything in her department was done, and also by the degree of bravery displayed by an English woman in living at such a far distant and isolated place.
		Probably the results of the battle of Tarawa made the Japanese realise that they had no hope of South Sea Island domination, and their policy was to put up a hard fight at their other mid-Pacific bases in order to improve their prospects in case of a negotiated peace.
		Tarawa will ever be classed among the bloodiest battles of the war, an epic fight, one in which the gallantry, resource and determination of the marines carried the issue to victory.
	www.janesoceania.com /kiribati_historical_tarawa/index.htm (2365 words)

	Tarawa – FREE Tarawa Information \| Encyclopedia.com: Facts, Pictures, Information!
		Tarawa is the site of a teacher's training college and a marine training school, as well as an international airport.
		Tarawa was occupied by the Japanese (1941-43) and fell to U.S. marines after a bloody battle.
		Tarawa, Butaritari, Abaiang, Marakei, and Abemama were occupied by...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Tarawa.html (781 words)

	Battle of Tarawa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Tarawa was a battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, largely fought from November 20-23, 1943.
		It was the second time the United States was on the offensive (the Battle of Guadalcanal had been the first), and the first offensive in the critical central Pacific region.
		The reason of was that Tarawa was the most heavily defended atoll that woul ever be invaded by Allied forces in the pacific, with the possible exception of Iwo Jima.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Tarawa (2405 words)

	Tarawa: Testing Ground For The Amphibious Assault
		Tarawa: Testing Ground For The Amphibious Assault CSC 1989 SUBJECT AREA - History Author Major Douglas F. Ashton TARAWA: TESTING GROUND FOR THE AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT The battle for Tarawa was the first of a series of amphibious operations which carried the United State's forces across the Central Pacific to the homeland of Japan.
		The battle also highlighted the necessity that the timing of naval gunf ire and aerial support be made to conform with the movement of the landing craft with the first waves of the assault forces.
		Tarawa was the testing ground of the amphibious assault and therefore worthy of study for its accomplishments and shortfalls.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/1989/ADF.htm (8613 words)

	HyperWar: The Battle for Tarawa [Chapter 7: Conclusion]
		Chief ally to the Japanese in this battle was the reef that fringed Betio.
		Tarawa highlighted the necessity that timing of naval gunfire and air bombardment be made to conform with the movement of the landing craft of the first waves of assault troops.
		Tarawa showed that better regulation and control could help to provide this flexibility; that the landing force must be able to exert control over the movement of supply and reinforcements in accordance with the situation on the beaches.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USMC/USMC-M-Tarawa/USMC-M-Tarawa-7.html (1874 words)

	ipedia.com: Battle of Tarawa Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Battle of Tarawa was a battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
		After the battle ended about 1 hour later, 200 of the 300 men involved were found dead in front of the US lines, the vast majority due to artillery fire.
		The battle was essentially over by sunset, with the entirety of the island now a single continuous line.
	www.ipedia.com /battle_of_tarawa.html (2222 words)

	Tarawa: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		Tarawa was occupied by the Japanese (1941–43) and fell to U.S. marines after a bloody battle.
		On Tarawa, Kiribati, it remains an important secondary...G. 2001 Benthic ecology and biota of Tarawa Lagoon: Influence of equatorial upwelling...Anadara uropigimelana (Bivalvia: Arcidae) on Tarawa Atoll.
		Tarawa was occupied by the Japanese (1941 43) and fell to U.S...
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/tarawa.jsp (1610 words)

	Tarawa Expeditionary Strike Group [LHA 1]
		Tarawa was built by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries at Pascagoula, Mississippi, and commissioned May 29, 1976.
		Tarawa is the first in a new generation of multipurpose amphibious assault ships, a vital member of the Navy/Marine Corps team in the Pacific Fleet and a major factor in U.S. projection power overseas.
		Tarawa, and atoll in those islands, was the scene of a major amphibious assault and on of the proudest testaments to valor in U.S. Marine Corps history.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/lha-1.htm (832 words)

	Reference for Battle of Tarawa - Search.com
		Tarawa – Makin – Kwajalein – Truk – Eniwetok
		It was the second time the United States was on the offensive (the Battle of Guadalcanal had been the first), and the first offensive in the critical central Pacific region.
		Marine battle planners had allowed for Betio's neap tide and expected the normal rising tide to provide a water depth of five feet over the reef, allowing larger landing craft, with drafts of at least four feet, to pass with room to spare.
	www.search.com /reference/Battle_of_Tarawa (2876 words)

	1943: GILBERT ISLANDS
		While the landings at Vella Lavella (18 September 1943) and Bougainville (1 November 1943) took place in the Solomons, the invasion of the Gilbert Islands in the Central Pacific was staged, an early experience in amphibious operations and the first atoll operation in the Central Pacific Area.
		The assault was planned against the Tarawa and Makin atolls where the Japanese had augmented their forces and strengthened positions in anticipation of such an assault.
		Tarawa, 100 miles south of Makin, is a roughly triangular atoll that includes about 20 small islands and coral reefs extending 500 to 1,000 yards offshore.
	www.olive-drab.com /od_history_ww2_ops_battles_1943gilberts.php (1680 words)

	PBS - The Voyage of the Odyssey - Track the Voyage - Kiribati
		At the time, Tarawa was the extremity of the Japanese expansion into the South Pacific, a march that had to be repelled at all costs.
		This is the sight of the famous battle of Tarawa in November of 1943, one of the most important battles in the Pacific theatre.
		What happened in this battle is that the Japanese had defended most strongly one of the many islands that make up the atoll of Tarawa, this island, the island called Betio and they had done it with these enormous guns.
	www.pbs.org /odyssey/odyssey/20010115_log_transcript.html (937 words)

	Battle of Tarawa
		Already a year into the Pacific “Island-Hopping” strategy used by the Americans, Tarawa would prove to be a huge test of whether the American public would support a strategy of such high casualties.
		On November 20, 1943 the Americans landed on Tarawa and Makin in the Gilbert chain.
		When the Americans tried to land on Tarawa they didn’t heed the warnings about the tricky tides around the island and the landing craft got beached 500 yards from the island.
	www.tqnyc.org /NYC073867/Battle_of_Tarawa.htm (476 words)

	A Validation of the U.S. Marines [Archive] - Marine Corps Community for USMC Veterans
		Tarawa was a brawl, the nastiest kind of close quarter fighting between two dedicated, relentless, and ruthless forces.
		Eventual success at the Battle of Tarawa made it appear to some that the amphibious doctrine was already "a firmly established doctrine" and was the reason the Americans succeeded in capturing Betio.
		The Battle of Tarawa revalidated the individual Marine and the Marine tradition, and it was these, which won the battle despite the failures and weaknesses of the amphibious doctrine and thus saved the doctrine from discredit.
	www.leatherneck.com /forums/archive/index.php/t-3121.html (1276 words)

	Betio Island, Tarawas Atoll - U.S. Marines, 2nd Division, Nov 20-23, 1943.
		At Tarawa, with the United States on the attack against 4,000 entrenched defenders, more than 1,000 U.S. servicemen were killed in three days.
		Tarawa Atoll is shaped like a triangle with it's base running pretty much East and West.
		Tarawa was far more heavily fortified than any island the Allies had encountered before; to attack it the growing strength of the United States Navy would mobilize a fleet of dozens of ships.
	www.enter.net /~kiddycar/tarawa.htm (1334 words)

	Kiribati Bibliography: Semantic Index
		Tarawa: honderd dagen in een reddingboot en op een koraaleiland.
		Tarawa; the dramatic story of one of the most devastating battles in Marine history.
		Bolton, Lesley A. The Intertidal Fauna of Southern Tarawa Atoll Lagoon, Republic of Kiribati.
	www.trussel.com /kir/s_tarawa.htm (1516 words)

	Situational Awareness: Was Tarawa Necessary?
		I have been developing a new video documentary project on the Battle of Tarawa and the US invasion of the Gilbert Islands in November 1943.
		He was in the first wave, and unlike much of the invasion force, he found a way through the reef and dropped his ramp on the sand of Betio so his complement of Marines wouldn't have to wade through the lagoon.
		Tarawa happened early enough in the Pacific War as to be an "initial encounter" for a particular type of operation: the opposed beach landing against an island.
	edefense.blogspot.com /2006/04/was-tarawa-necessary.html (733 words)

	Second WW
		Tarawa consists of a chain of small islets surrounded by a dangerous coral reef.
		The famous Battle of Tarawa was fought by the Americans in November 1943.
		Tarawa was to be taken from the Japanese in order to have a stepping stone to Tokyo.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /kiribati/about_destin/history_ww2_local.html (5751 words)

	Recalling the battle of Tarawa - The Record (Bergen County, NJ) \| Encyclopedia.com
		Recalling the battle of Tarawa - The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
		the middle of Peleliu, Tarawa, Iwo Jima, D-Day, the Hurtgen Forest, the Battle of the Bulge, Auschwitz...
		On to Westward: The Battles of Saipan and Iwo Jima, by Robert Sherrod (Nautical and Aviation Publishing Co., $19.95).
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1P1-87327477.html (551 words)

	USS Hopper Commemorates the Battle of Tarawa
		Tarawa Atoll, part of the Gilbert Islands, is a triangular atoll about 80 miles north of the equator.
		The southwest island of Betio was the scene of the battle.
		The excitement of traveling to a new place and the pride of participating in a ceremony in the remembrance of a battle that was extremely significant in the lives of all Americans and the world 60 years ago, was at times overshadowed by the sadness of the lives lost there.
	www.navy.mil /search/display.asp?story_id=10830 (598 words)

	Tarawa and Makin, Gilbert Islands November 1943 - World War II Multimedia Database
		Tarawa Atoll is a series of small islands in the Gilberts.
		After the Battle of Midway and especially after the fall of Guadalcanal, the Japanese Imperial Navy began to fortify the Gilberts.
		The battle for Tarawa was a pivotal event in the Pacific Theater at the end of 1943.This is the story of Tarawa and Betio before and after the assault, including life there through the rest of the war years.
	www.worldwar2database.com /html/tarawa.htm (983 words)

	James Troy
		Tarawa was an extremely important acquisition because it would enable the United States to secure the airfield so the Japanese forces could not attack our forces.
		Tarawa was the main obstacle blocking the other islands in the Central Pacific such as, Siapan and Tinian.
		During the battle because of the low tide, my grandfather’s boat could not get over the reefs and he and his troops had to fight waist deep in water, while the Japanese fired at them from the beach, and many did not make it ashore.
	nhs.needham.k12.ma.us /cur/wwII/WWII-p3-04/Brooke-ARD-period3/James_Troy.html (1085 words)

	USS Tarawa Awarded Battle "E"
		Tarawa was judged the winner by Commander, Amphibious Squadron 1, and confirmed by Commander, Naval Surface Forces, March 8.
		Tarawa's engineering training team consists of senior watchstanders who were responsible for training the main space watchstanders during certification drills; Unit Level Training (ULTRA) tests; and Sustainment and ULTRA engineering inspections.
		Tarawa is conducting operations in the 5th Fleet area of operations and is focused upon reassuring regional partners of the coalition's commitment to help set conditions for security, which promotes stability and global prosperity.
	www.news.navy.mil /search/display.asp?story_id=35608 (383 words)

	The Battle of Britain, 1940
		All that stood between the British and defeat was a small force of RAF pilots outnumbered in the air by four to one.
		Deighton, Lee, Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain (1977); Michie, Allan A. and Walter Graebner, Their Finest Hour (1941) reprinted in Commager, Henry Steele, The Story of the Second World War (1945).
		The Supermarine Spitfire and the Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft were the mainstay of the British defense during the Battle of Britain.
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /airbattle.htm (1392 words)

	Operation Galvanic (1): The Battle for Tarawa November 1943
		Tarawa lay some 2,500 miles (4,000km) southwest of Hawaii and 1,300 miles (2,100km) southeast of Truk (the principal Naval base in the outer ring of defences) in the Carolines.
		At a conference in Hawaii in September 1943, the decision was taken to attack Tarawa, Makin (Operation Kourbash) and the small island of Apamama (Operation Boxcloth) in an operation, the overall codename of which was Galvanic.
		Colonel Raymond Murray's 2/6 hopped from island to island along the rest of the Tarawa atoll and finally fought a decisive engagement with the remaining Japanese on Buariki at which 175 Japanese were killed and the Marines suffered 91 casualties.
	www.historyofwar.org /articles/battles_tarawa.html (6169 words)

	Tarawa on the Web
		Combat Correspondent John B. Garrett, now with the public relations department of the coast guard stationed at Cleveland, Ohio, was aboard an assault transport which landed elements of the 2nd marine division at Tarawa a year ago today.
		It is impossible to describe lucidly or even coherently the course of the three-day battle.
		For us, Tarawa was a bitterly won victory; for the Japs it was the handwriting on the wall.
	www.geocities.com /jonathan.e.stevens/garrett.htm (782 words)

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