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	Battle of Tarawa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However the nearest islands capable of supporting such an effort were the Marshall Islands, northwest of Guadalcanal.
		Taking the Marshalls would provide the base needed to launch an offensive on the Marianas, but was itself cut off from direct communications with Hawaii by a garrison on the small island of Betio, on the western side of Tarawa atoll in the Gilbert Islands.
		The lagoon of the atoll lies to the north and east, with the entire northern coast of the island in the shallow waters of the atoll, and the southern and western sides in deeper waters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Tarawa (2278 words)

	MARSHALL ISLANDS INVASION
		The latest victories at Tarawa and Makin in the Gilbert Islands initiated the Central Pacific Campaign that was designed to negate the Japanese threat to Allied operations in the Solomon Islands and New Britain Island.
		Extending northwest from the Gilbert Island chain are the Marshall Islands.
		Four of the remaining defended islands were bypassed and their small garrisons slowly decimated by repeated bombings and by air and sea blockade.
	www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/MarshallIslands.html (1468 words)

	1943: GILBERT ISLANDS
		The first Central Pacific target was the Gilbert Islands, a group of 16 atolls on the equator, 2,000 miles southwest of Pearl Harbor, southeast of the Marshall Islands and 1,200 miles northeast of the Solomons.
		The Gilbert Islands had been seized by Japan immediately after Pearl Harbor in December 1941, and had been heavily reinforced by the Japanese after the Marine raid on Makin Atoll in August 1942.
		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.
	www.olive-drab.com /od_history_ww2_ops_battles_1943gilberts.php (1653 words)

	Kwajalein Control Facility - Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands
		The Japanese expected to be attacked in the Marshalls, but not at Kwajalein, which was not as heavily defended as bases at Wotje, Maloelap, Mili, and Jaluit, a big payoff for striking at the center instead of the perimeter.
		Waiting for reinforcements that never came and continuously harassed by air raids, the remaining garrisons in the Marshalls were bypassed and left isolated, powerless, and doomed to "wither on the vine." With their eastern flank penetrated, the Japanese could not hold the Bismarks, Solomons, or New Guinea.
		Roi and Namur islands, center of Japan’s air power in the Marshalls, are under attack from planes and ships of the Northern Attack Force, while men of the 4th Marine Division, not yet tried in battle, also wait for D-Day.
	www.angelfire.com /hi2/kwa/0his_ww2.html (2262 words)

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		On Kwajalein and immediately adjoining islands, it was thought that there were 3,500 to 4,200 combatants plus 1,200 to 1,600 laborers, the total on both of the principal objectives of the atoll probably not in excess of 7,100.
		Landing of the artillery on the adjoining islands to the south began in the afternoon, was carried out through the night and by the morning of D-day plus 1 all batteries had registered on their respective targets on Roi-Namur.
		As soon as the islands had been secured it was planned that the LVT's should immediately retract, pick up other troops in the LST area outside the reef and returning through Ennuebing Pass proceed across the north end of the lagoon to capture Ennubirr and Ennumennet Islands.
	www.au.af.mil /au/awc/awcgate/usmchist/island.txt (21426 words)

	Japanese Forces in the Gilbert and Nauru Islands, Stan Jersey
		This phase was characterized by a gradual increase in strength of the garrison, by expansion of the occupied area to include Tarawa and Apamama Atolls and by a change the strategic character of the occupation from that of a lookout post to a fortified station.
		During the Japanese occupation of the Gilbert Islands were garrisoned by units of the Imperial Navy and it would be well at this point to provide a brief descriptions of the most important types of Naval ground forces that were found in the Central Pacific.
		The island was reinforced with the arrival of the 5th Marine Defense Battalion less detachments “A”and“B.” The Japanese were unaware that the Americans were positioned on their southern flank until sighted by a passing flying boat in March 1943.
	www.tarawaontheweb.org /stanjersy1.htm (7312 words)

	CANOE Travel - Travel Guide
		The name means, "cluster of eight," although there are actually nine islands and atolls in the group (one island was only resettled in 1949).
		Funafuti and Nukufetau both have several dozen small islands riding on their barrier reefs and lagoons which can be entered by ships.
		Like the neighboring Kiribati and Marshall islands, Tuvalu may have to be evacuated before the end of the 21st century, as the islands are flooded and saltwater seeps into the water table, making agriculture impossible.
	www.canoe.ca /Travel/AtevoGuides/country/Tuvalu/Introduction.html (449 words)

	Pacific Islands to 1875 by Sanderson Beck
		Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, and most of the islands of the south Pacific developed their own isolated cultures and native beliefs but were not much affected by literate civilization until the arrival of sailing vessels in the 16th century.
		By mid-century 37% of the arable land on the island was cultivated.
		Around a thousand years ago people migrated from eastern Polynesian islands to the southern island group they called Aotearoa, which means "the land of the long white cloud." Their tribes had a large ruling class, commoners, and some war captives who were treated as slaves.
	www.san.beck.org /2-13-PacificIslands.html (23410 words)

	Marshall Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Yokwe, CA -: The Marshall Islands were ruled under a succession of colonial regimes for 400 years, including under Spanish and German rule, followed in the 20th century by...
		Noyes is the son of Kim Duty of Toledo and Chuck Noyes of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
		Marshall Islands: Embassy of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, 2433 Massachusetts Ave.
	www.world-news-watch.com /world/062004/Marshall_Islands.html (12131 words)

	FEBURARY 1944
		Operation CATCHPOLE (operations against Eniwetok and Ujelang Atolls in the Marshall Islands) is begun to occupy and defend Eniwetok Atoll, which is to furnish a striking base for operations against the Marianas Islands.
		Atoll, Marshall Islands; P-39s strafe runways on Mille Atoll.
		Lakunai Airfield, New Britain Island, is hit by 32 B-25s, covered by 60+ AAF and USN fighters, and shortly afterwards by 19 B-24s, escorted by nearly 50 Allied fighters; Allied aircraft claim 16 aircraft shot down; Lakunai is practically unserviceable as a result of cumulative damage.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /60th/today/1944/2-44.html (6527 words)

	HyperWar: The Marshalls: Contents
		Breaking the Outer Ring: Marine Landings in the Marshall Islands
		Central Pacific Operations From 1 June 1943 to 1 March 1944, Including the Gilbert-Marshall Islands Campaign
		The Marshall Islands Campaign: January 31, 1944 - Feb. 8, 1944
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/PTO/Marshalls (170 words)

	USS Taylor (DD/DDE-468), Fletcher-class destroyer home page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		After short service with DesRon 20 in the Atlantic, she was transferred to the Pacific and assigned to
		in the Solomon Islands, for which she was later presented with a
		, she continued her career in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands operations, off the Bismarcks and New Guinea, in the Philippines and off Borneo, sinking three submarines and rescuing twenty-one airmen.
	www.domeisland.com /fletcherclass/usstaylor (243 words)

	Central Pacific Campaigns and Operations: Including the Gilbert-Marshall Islands Campaign and the Occupation of the ...
		Central Pacific Campaigns and Operations: Including the Gilbert-Marshall Islands Campaign and the Occupation of the Marianas, 1 June 1943-1 September 1944 (Merriam Press Monograph M124) Description
		Including the Gilbert-Marshall Islands Campaign and the Occupation of the Marianas, 1 June 1943-1 September 1944
		First published as Chapters IX and X of The Campaigns of the Pacific War as part of the USSBS series in 1946.
	www.merriam-press.com /mono_200/m124.htm (198 words)

	1998 Banquet Schedule (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Colonel Jones served as the G2 for Amphibious Corps, Atlantic Fleet (FEB-SEP 1942) and G2 for Amphibious Corps, Pacific Fleet (OCT-DEC 1943).
		Later as Commanding Officer, Amphibious Reconnaissance Company (JAN 1943-MAR 1944), he received two Legions of Merit for duty in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands Campaign and as Commanding Officer, Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion (1944-1945), he received a Silver Star for the Saipan-Tinian-Okinawa Campaign.
		Returning to civilian life in 1946 and resuming employment with International Harvester Export Company as a sales representative and later sales manager for South Africa and France, Colonel Jones is the embodiment of the citizen Marine.
	www.nmia.org /awards/awardhistory.htm (2048 words)

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