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	Makin - Republic of Kiribati
		Makin is the northernmost island in the Kiribati Group.
		When the lack of workers was felt in the mission then its priest was taken away and Makin became one of the islands that were simply visited.
		The Makin priest doesn't have to make long journeys for the population is gathered in two villages, but he has his time cut out to keep the very aware young people occupied.
	www.janeresture.com /makin/makin.htm (757 words)

	Butaritari - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Butaritari is an atoll of 10 islands in the Pacific Ocean island nation of Kiribati.
		Butaritari atoll has a land area of 13.6 km² and a population of 4200 as of 2002, while Makin has a land area of 6.7 km² and a population of 1700.
		Butaritari atoll was the site of the initial thrust of the United States advance into the central Pacific in late 1942, in the battle of Makin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Makin (149 words)

	Butaritari (Makin) Island
		Part of the Gilbert Islands and part of Makin Atoll.
		After killing 83 Japanese and destroying installations, ships and flying boats, the Marines were forced to evacuate in the face of Japanese air attacks and forces, While evacuating, they were forced to leave behind their dead, which were later buried by the islanders and Japanese in a mass grave.
		In 1999 the US Army Central Identification Laboratory located the mass grave of USMC killed during the 'Makin Raid' and buried on the island.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /provinces/kiribati_makin.html (352 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.
		Makin Atoll, one degree south of the boundary of the Japanese Mandated Islands, offered the advantage of being located about 270 statue miles from the farther to the southeast than Jaluit, the most important seaplane base in the lower Marshalls.
		Since Makin Atoll is in the most northerly most of the Gilbert Islands, it is the easiest to supply by transport from the Marshalls.
	www.tarawaontheweb.org /stanjersy1.htm (7312 words)

	Makin:Preparing the Attack
		Makin atoll is an irregular formation of reefs and islands around a large lagoon, approximately triangular in shape (Map No.
		Possession of the captured atoll might then be transferred to a garrison force whose mission it would be to convert Makin from a Japanese seaplane base to an American station for shore-based airplanes.
		ALLIGATORS AT MAKIN were used to carry the first assault troops ashore, to convey wounded to the transports, serve as ferries from barges unable to clear the reefs, and take troops on special trips to outlying islands.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/wwii/makin/mak-prep.htm (5325 words)

	Butaritari - Republic of Kiribati
		Butaritari is one of the larger atolls in the Gilberts chain of Kiribati, located just south of Little Makin at 3° north of the equator.
		The atoll is roughly 4-sided and nearly 30 km across in the east west direction, and averages about 15 km north to south.
		Narrow islets are somewhat characteristic of Kiribati atolls running E-W. Bikati and Bikatieta islets occupy a corner of the reef at the extreme northwest tip of the atoll, bordering what may be a second small lagoon to the north of the main lagoon.
	www.janeresture.com /butaritari/index.htm (1629 words)

	Marshall Islands -- Combat Chronology of the US Army Air Forces in operations against and from the Marshall Islands
		20+ B-24's from Funafuti Atoll in the Ellice Islands and Canton Island in the Phoenix Islands bomb Mille Atoll and Maloelap Atoll in the Marshall Islands, and Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands.
		B-25s from Tarawa Atoll hit Wotje and Maloelap Atolls; 9 B-24s from Abemama Island, sent to bomb a weather and radio station on Rongelap Island, abort due to a fuel leak in the lead B-24; an attempt to bomb Jaluit Atoll during the return flight is unsuccessful.
		B-24s from Tarawa Atoll and Makin Island pound Mille Atoll and Ponape Island; 10 P-40s from Makin Island bomb and strafe runways and a disabled vessel at Mille Atoll.
	marshall.csu.edu.au /Marshalls/html/WWII/AAF_Chronology.html (7068 words)

	Gilbert Islands -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Gilbert Islands are a chain of 16 (An island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon) atolls and coral islands in the (The largest ocean in the world) Pacific Ocean, part of the nation (An island republic in the west central Pacific just south of the equator) Kiribati.
		In the years that followed, many ships ran across the little islands and atolls of the Gilberts in the course of their travels in the central Pacific.
		The atolls and islands are arranged in an approximate north-to-south line.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gi/gilbert_islands.htm (932 words)

	World War II Marine Raiders Home At Last
		It was a final homecoming for the Marines killed during a 1942 raid on the Japanese-held Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Islands.
		The Makin Raiders were celebrated as heroes, for while the raid may not have been strategically significant, it lifted the spirits of the nation.
		Yet the Makin raid was a victory that never was, a muddled and confused affair in which the Americans nearly surrendered to a defeated enemy.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /raiders-1942.htm (6613 words)

	USS Liscome Bay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Its objective was the capture of all three atolls as a steppingstone for future landings in the nearby Marshall Islands.
		The northern Attack Force, Task Force 52, under Admiral Turner, was given the objective of capturing Makin Atoll in the northern Gilberts.
		One Avenger was lost in a crash at sea, another in an emergency landing near Makin Island; and a Wildcat was so seriously damaged in a barrier crash that it was dismantled for spare parts.
	www.thehistorynet.com /wwii/blliscomebay/index1.html (917 words)

	Marshall Islands -- Kwajalein Atoll -- Combat Chronology of the US Army Air Forces in operations against and from the ...
		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.
		B-24s from Kwajalein Atoll bomb Wake Island; B-25s flying out of Enewetak Atoll hit Ponape Island; and Tarawa Atoll-based B-25s strike Maloelap and Jaluit Atolls, commencing a series of B-25 shuttle-missions between Tarawa or Makin Island and the USN's new base at Majuro Atoll which is used as the rearming base for the return strike.
		Advanced HQ Seventh Air Force in Tarawa Atoll is disbanded and the Seventh's operations in the C Pacific forward area are placed under the VII Bomber Command at Kwajalein Atoll.
	marshall.csu.edu.au /Marshalls/html/atolls/AAF_Kwajalein.html (2721 words)

	Makin Raiders to be buried at Arlington [Free Republic]
		Makin Raiders to be buried at Arlington [Free Republic]
		The search for the Makin Raiders on Makin Atoll, now known as Butaritari and is part of the Kiribati nation, began in earnest in 1998.
		The remains were recovered in December 1999 from Makin Atoll, located in the former Gilbert Islands, by the Army's Central Identification Laboratory at Hickam Air Force Base and positively identified a year later.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b7b48ee4a69.htm (1011 words)

	Carlson's Raiders Executed!
		Carlson's 2d Raider Battalion went from Oahu to Makin atoll on board submarines Argonaut and Nautilus and landed on the hostile beach early on 17 August.
		I was his radioman on Makin and with him on The Long Patrol, but Co. B radioman.
		The victims were supposed to be from among Raiders stranded on Makin after the raid.
	www.angelfire.com /ca/dickg/carlsonraidersexecuted.html (1543 words)

	Invasion No
		Makin Atoll was secured in less than a week with relatively few casualties suffered by the Army's Twenty-Seventh division, but many by the Japanese.
		The natives of Makin Atoll were Polynesians who still wore grass skirts for the most part.
		On December 1, at 0630, we retracted from the beach at King's Wharf and by 0741 we were underway for Abemama atoll in company with LSTs 476 and 477, with Harrison (DD-573) and Whitman (DE-24) as escorts.
	webpages.charter.net /rharper2018/invasun2.htm (2750 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| World War II \| Gilbert Islands Campaign: Capturing Makin Atoll
		While Marines fought a desperate battle for Tarawa, the capture of nearby Makin Atoll was primarily an Army operation.
		Their mission: to capture the atoll from the Japanese for use as a base during future attacks on the nearby Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
		Makin was garrisoned with a single company of the 5th Special Base Force on August 30, 1942, and work on both the seaplane base and coastal defenses of the atoll was resumed in earnest.
	www.historynet.com /wwii/blmakinatoll (1140 words)

	HyperWar: The Amphibians Came to Conquer [Chapter 17]
		The equipment and logistic support of the assault troops at Makin Atoll was moved ashore, in the main, by the three LST's and the three LCT's which the LST's had carried on their backs to the atoll's lagoon and there launched.
		The amphibians at Makin Atoll had the usual rash of bogies each day but mostly they turned out to be friendly planes who were reluctant dragons in turning on the IFF (Identification Fried, Foe) signals.
		Tenney, AUS, assumed command of Makin Atoll at 0800 on 24 November, after receipt (on the afternoon of the 23rd) of a recommendation by Commander Central Pacific Forces from the Commanding General 27th Division, that this be done.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USN/ACTC/actc-17.html (9846 words)

	HyperWar: American Forces in Action: The Capture of Makin (20 - 24 November 1943) [Preparing the Attack]
		The attack upon the Gilbert Islands was an early experience in amphibious operations and the first atoll operation in the Central Pacific Area.
		Makin atoll is an irregular formation of reefs and islands around a large lagoon, approximately triangular in shape (Map No. 3).
		Four miles east of Makin lay Little Makin, a satellite atoll of small proportions on which Japanese outpost installations might exist, but on which no significant military activity had been noted in reconnaissance by air and submarine (Map No. 3).
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USA/USA-A-Makin/USA-A-Makin-2.html (5449 words)

	MAKIN ATOLL RAID 1942
		The Gilbert Islands had been occupied by the Japanese early in the war, on 10 December 1941, when they established an auxiliary seaplane base on Makin Atoll's largest island, Butaritari, held by a small garrison of 43 Japanese soldiers.
		In August of 1942, as Allied forces on Guadalcanal were beginning the effort to eject the Japanese from the Solomons, Admiral Nimitz ordered a diversionary raid on Makin Atoll, over 1000 miles to the northeast.
		Carlson and his men were to be transported from Pearl Harbor to Makin onboard two large submarines, USS Nautilus (SS-168) and USS Argonaut (SS-166).
	www.olive-drab.com /od_history_ww2_stories_1942makin.php (1069 words)

	WWII MARINES KILLED ON MAKIN ATOLL, KIRIBATI NEAR END OF JOURNEY - December 1, 2000
		The Marines were killed during a commando raid on Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and buried by local residents.
		They landed on Japanese-held Makin Atoll on August 17, 1942.
		The Japanese commander who ordered their execution was put on trial after the war and hanged, but neither the names of his prisoners nor the location of their graves was ever revealed.
	166.122.164.43 /archive/2000/december/12-01-16.htm (1258 words)

	Butaritari Atoll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Butaritari Atoll is an atoll of 10 islands in the Pacific Ocean island nation of Kiribati.
		Butaritari atoll was the site of the initial thrust of the United States central Pacific campaign in 1943, in the Battle of Tarawa.
		This page was last modified 02:38, 21 Jul 2004.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Makin (147 words)

	Kiribati: Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		ABEMAMA [ATOLL] (Abamama, Abemama Island, Apamama [Atoll], Apamama Island, Dundas, Hopper [Island], Roger Simpson [Island], Simpson [Island].
		BUTARITARI [ATOLL] (Butaritari Island, Kleine-Makin, Makin [Atoll], Makin Island, Pitt [Island], Taritari [Island], Touching [Island]).
		TARAWA [ATOLL] (Cook [Island], Knox [Island], Knoy Island, Tarawa Island, Tarowa) - - Place names: Abaokoro [Islet], Bairiki [Island], Bairiki (settlement), Betio [Island], Betio (settlement), Betio Anchorage, Bikeman Island, Bikenibeu (settlement), Bonriki [Islet] (Buota, Ella Island), Eita [Island], Lone Tree Island(2), Taritai (settlement), Vinstra Shoal.
	www.wysiwyg.co.nz /kiribati/islands.html (1213 words)

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	TheHistoryNet \| Ships & Boats \| USS Liscome Bay: Hit By a Torpedo Near Makin Atoll During World War II
		She began life as a nameless Hull in the Kaiser shipyards in Vancouver, Washington, on December 12, 1942.
		And she ended her short, 11-month span in 23 terrifying minutes off Makin Atoll in the Pacific, after being struck by a single torpedo from a Japanese submarine.
		She was the first of her flock to go, but before war's end in 1945, the ill-fated CVE-56 would be joined by five more American-built escort carriers (CVEs) sunk by enemy action.
	www.historynet.com /air_sea/ships_boats/3027816.html (822 words)

	Read about Butaritari Atoll at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Butaritari Atoll and learn about Butaritari Atoll ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
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	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Makin (159 words)

	Kiribati Bibliography - K
		Human Skeletal Remains from Makin Atoll of the Gilbert Islands, Micronesia.
		Kearney, R.E. Keeble, A.B. Atoll Geography of the Gilbert Islands and Tuvalu: A Resources Based Work Unit for Senior Students.
		Katabaninan mwin minitin maroro ao maungatabu, Makin - Arorae.
	www.trussel.com /kir/gilbibk.htm (2175 words)

	Kiribati: Butaritari (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The name means, in old high Elvish as it were, 'smell of the sea'.
		The south and southeast portion of the atoll comprises a nearly continuous islet, broken only by a single, broad section of interislet reef.
		The international schedule is up in the air somewhat.
	www.wysiwyg.co.nz /kiribati/butaritari.html (1180 words)

	SLAMLibr
		In October 1943, he was sent to the central Pacific to develop methods of combat research.
		In pursuing this work, he was attached to the Twenty-seventh Infantry Division during the invasion of Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and to the Seventh at the taking of Kwajalein.
		In these operations he devised the after-action, group-interview technique as a means of determining precisely what had happened in an engagement and why success or failure ensued.
	tservcsc.bizhosting.com /SLAMLibr.htm (2852 words)

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