The Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign were a series of battles fought from August 1942 through February 1944, in the Pacific theatre of World War...

the overall command of Chester W. Nimitz, followed the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign and was intended to neutralize Japanese bases in the central...

participating in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaigns in late 1943 and early 1944, and the Mariana and Palau Islands campaign in mid-1944. There,...

surface and air attacks. In this capacity, she took part in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign in 1943 and early 1944 and the Philippines campaign in...

the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign in January and February 1944 and again, after three months of patrol and escort duty in the Solomon Islands, during...

the 5th Fleet for the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign. This was the first major operation in the island-hopping campaign the US Navy would wage...

Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign in late 1943 and early 1944, the Mariana and Palau Islands campaign in mid-1944, and the Philippines campaign in...

forces against Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) garrisons in the Marshall and Gilbert Islands on 1 February 1942. It was the first of six American raids against...

for operations against Japan; the first of these was the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign that began in November that year. While operating in the...

campaign. New Guinea campaign New Britain campaign Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign Guadalcanal Campaign Operation Vengeance AirSols Battle of the...

in the western Pacific—specifically, the Mariana, Marshall, and the Caroline Islands. If these islands were fortified, Japan could in principle deny the...

preparing for operations in the Gilbert Islands. The first target of the Gilbert and Marshall campaign was the island of Betio, the main Japanese position...

duty in the Pacific. Laden with troops and a cargo of planes, she steamed via Pearl Harbor for the Gilbert Islands, arriving off Tarawa Atoll 24 January...

island-hopping campaign across the central Pacific. Tennessee took part in the Aleutian Islands campaign in mid-1943, the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign in...

a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought from 17 to 23 February 1944 on Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The invasion of Eniwetok...

of Makin and Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands, the next step in the United States Navy's campaign in the central Pacific was the Marshall Island chain.: 7 ...

engagement of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought from 20 to 24 November 1943 on Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Islands. On 10 December 1941, three...

Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign in late 1943 and early 1944, the Mariana and Palau Islands campaign in mid-1944, and the Philippines campaign later...

and Ryūkyū Islands campaign was a series of battles and engagements between Allied forces and Imperial Japanese Forces in the Pacific Ocean campaign of...

of the Gilbert Islands was the period in the history of Kiribati between 1941 and 1945 when Imperial Japanese forces occupied the Gilbert Islands during...

Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, which began with assaults on Makin, Tarawa, and Abemama. The group also included Massachusetts and Indiana and...

the battles of the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaigns. However, the raid did succeed in its objectives of boosting morale and testing Raider tactics...

Kwajalein and Eniwetok during the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign Western Pacific: 15 June 1944 – 2 September 1945, the Mariana and Palau Islands campaign...

Tassafaronga New Guinea campaign Solomon Islands Campaign Battle of the Bismark Sea Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign 1943–44 Makin Island raid 17–18 August...

Aleutian Islands campaign (Japanese: アリューシャン方面の戦い, romanized: Aryūshan hōmen no tatakai) was a military campaign fought between 3 June 1942 and 15 August...

sortied as part of the escort for the invasion fleet for the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign. Santa Fe shelled Tarawa from 20 to 22 November, during...

invasions and won a number of battle stars. Wouk was in the New Georgia Campaign, the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, the Mariana and Palau Islands campaign...

Kwajalein and Eniwetok during the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign Western Pacific: 15 June 1944 – 2 September 1945, the Mariana and Palau Islands campaign...

United States and Japan on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands, and was part of Operation Galvanic, the U.S. invasion of the Gilberts. Nearly 6,400 Japanese...

The Marshall Islands (Marshallese: Ṃajeḷ), officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands (Marshallese: Aolepān Aorōkin Ṃajeḷ), is an island country...