Gilbert Islands

And both were among some 18,000 Marines who stormed the small, heavily fortified island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands in November 1943 to seize it from the Japanese. Robert was wounded and earned a Purple Heart; Bud was killed in action. Thomas-Corne, who lives on the ...

They say the study is relevant to thousands of other atoll islands in the Pacific and Indian oceans, including the northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Caroline Islands, Cook Islands, Gilbert Islands, Line Islands, Society Islands, Spratly Islands, Maldives and Seychelles. “The tipping point when potable ...

“I listened intently about places like Saipan, Tinian and Gaum, the Marshall and Gilbert Islands ....” the former U.S. Marine corporal told the dozens of military veterans and area community members who had gathered for an annual meal celebrating Veterans Day at the Kentucky Army National Guard Armory ...

Assigned to the Fleet Marine Force, which landed against stiff Japanese resistance in the Battle of Tarawa, the teenage Marine Corps private from Pittsburgh's North Side wouldn't last a day. On Monday, 74 years after his battalion landed on the small island of Betio on the Tarawa Atoll of the Gilbert Islands, ...

As part of Navy Week, Navy Rear Admiral and Waco native James Bynum laid a wreath Wednesday morning at the city's memorial for Doris Miller, who served in the Navy during WWII. In memory of Doris Miller, a painting was laid along with the wreath. "When he was called upon for his time and his ...

Tarawa is an atoll in what was then known as the Gilbert Islands, and its strategic location was of great military importance in the Pacific. The 2nd Marine Division was tasked with capturing the airfield on Betio, a small island reported to be less than 2 miles long and a half-mile wide at its widest, and heavily ...

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency reported Charpilloz, a 19-year-old from Silverton, landed against stiff Japanese resistance on the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll of the Gilbert Islands in November 1943. Charpilloz was assigned to Company F, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd ...

Over the course of their history, the carrier served approximately 20 destinations, including all 16 domestic airports in the Gilbert Islands, such as Aranuka, Kiritimati, Beru, Marakai, Onotoa, and Tamana, among others. Their hub was located at Bonriki International Airport in South Tarawa, the capital of ...

In the late 1990s I had been trying to work out how it was that 17 New Zealand Post Office radio operators and unarmed soldiers sent to the Gilbert Islands as coast watchers, had been beheaded by Japanese soldiers on Tarawa on October 15, 1942 (along with five other white men). Their bodies have ...

At a little more than 2 1/2 miles long and only 1/2-mile wide, Betio Island is a tiny pin prick of land in the South Pacific, part of the Tarawa Atoll. Tarawa belongs to the Gilbert Islands, a group of 16 atolls and islands 2,500 miles southwest of Hawaii. In November 1943, 18,000 Marines descended on Betio to ...

Shortly after arriving in Pearl Harbor it was learned his Battalion would be heading to the Gilbert Islands for the Battles of Tarawa and Apamama. Amos was a part of the 8th Marine Battalion which played a major part in establishing airfields that would allow the Allies land-based air support for the upcoming ...

Harrison was part of the American invasion force at the Battle of Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands in 1943. The three-day battle was one of the first bloody assaults in America's long march to Japan. And it was one of the first of many costly American victories. Nearly 1,000 Americans were killed. Buried first in ...

Harrison was part of the American invasion force at the Battle of Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands in 1943. The three-day battle was one of the first bloody assaults in America's long march to Japan. And it was one of the first of many costly American victories. Nearly 1,000 Americans were killed. Buried first in ...

Japan's little-known 2nd surprise attack on Hawaii failed in more ways than one. Soldiers examine a wrecked Japanese Kawanishi H8K near Makin, Gilbert Islands in November 1943. Two similar planes were used in a bombing raid on Oahu, Hawaii, on March 4, 1942. COURTESY OF THE NATIONAL ...

Shortly after arriving in Pearl Harbor it was learned his Battalion would be heading to the Gilbert Islands for the Battles of Tarawa and Apamama. Amos was a part of the 8th Marine Battalion which played a major part in establishing airfields that would allow the Allies land-based air support for the upcoming ...

20, 1943, on a tiny Pacific atoll in the Gilbert Islands known as Tarawa. The day he died assaulting a Japanese-held beach also happened to be his 20th birthday. For readers who aren't aware, the battle for Tarawa included some of the most savage fighting that would take place in the Pacific Theater of ...

Harrison was assigned to Company B, 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, which landed against stiff Japanese resistance on the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll of the Gilbert Islands in November 1943. He was one of 1,000 servicemen who were killed in the effort to secure the ...

A New Zealander named Mr. Malleson lived on Tarawa in Kiribati, formerly known as the Gilbert Islands, who ran a successful business trading in island goods. Natives brought copra and fish to him and he would trade for exotic goods like tools, cloth and fishing gear. He had a reputation as an honest man ...

Gilbert Islands → Kiribati (1979). Portuguese Timor → East Timor → Timor-Leste (2002). German Southwest Africa → Southwest Africa → Namibia (1990). Upper Volta → Burkina Faso (1984). LEAD IMAGE: King Mswati III (center) dances with his men in front of young virgins at a traditional Reed Dance ...

In November 1943, Mr. Harrison was assigned to Company B, 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, which landed against stiff Japanese resistance on the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll of the Gilbert Islands, in an attempt to secure the island. By Wyndi Veigel • Staff Writer ...