Battle of Tarawa

English: Battle of Tarawa

Slovenščina: Bitka za Taravo

Maps

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  Map of Tarawa Atoll
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  Map of Betio, Tarawa Atoll

Pictures

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  Knocked-out LVT.
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  U.S. Marines wait aboard a Coast Guard manned combat transport at Tarawa for the invasion barges that will take them ashore
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  U.S. Coast Guardsmen at Tarawa pass the protruding hulk of an American tank lighter, wrecked by direct hit from a heavy shore gun
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  Marines storm Tarawa. Gilbert Islands, November 1943
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  Landings at Tarawa
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  When these Marines went over the top from the beach on Tarawa Island they knew they were going to have a fight on their hands but they just set their jaws as this picture shows and charged
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  Marines wade through the water off Tarawa Island as they came in to re-enforce the Marines that had already landed
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  Soldiers and supplies on the Tarawa beach
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  Marines on Tarawa Island unload ammunition from a jeep while still under fire of the Japanese. The jeep drove off a landing barge onto the beach
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  A Navy doctor (kneeling) bandages a head wound for a Marine at a dressing station on Tarawa
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  Marines wounded during the landing on Tarawa are towed out on rubber boats by their buddies to larger vessels that will take them to base hospitals for better medical care
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  Marine uses a flamethrower to clear a path through what was once a thick jungle in Tarawa, 1943
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  Tarawa beach after the battle
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  This LVT-1 was put out of action by enemy fire on Beach RED 1 during an attack on Tarawa.
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  LVT-2 on Green Beach, Tarawa, November 1943.
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  Tarawa beach after the fight
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  Casualties on the beach after the fight
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  Victory on Tarawa
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  Sign on Tarawa illustrates Marine humor and possible lack of optimism as to duration of war
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  Tarawa has 37 cemeteries. This is the largest

See also

• Gilbert Islands Campaign