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The Battle of Makin was an engagement of the Pacific campaign of World War II, ... Howland Island, Baker Island, Tuvalu, and Phoenix and Ellice Islands. ...
Wake Island was similarly bombed by G3Ms from the Chitose Kōkūtai on the first day of the war, with both civilian and US Navy infrastructure being heavily damaged on the ground. Other G3Ms of Chitose Kōkūtai, based in Kwajalein Atoll, attacked US Navy and civilian installations on Howland Island in the same period.
Map of Howland Island Orthographic projection centered over Howland Island Map of the central Pacific Ocean showing Howland Island and nearby Baker Island just north of the Equator and east of Tarawa. The U.S. claims an Exclusive Economic Zone of 200 nautical miles (370 km) and a territorial sea of 12 nautical miles (22 km) around the island.
The First Bombardment of Midway, or the First Bombardment of Sand Island, or Attack on Midway, was a small land and sea engagement of World War II. It occurred on the very first day of the Pacific War, 7 December 1941, not long after the major attack on Pearl Harbor. Two Imperial Japanese destroyers bombarded Sand Island of Midway Atoll.
Brown boobies atop pier posts at Johnston Atoll, September 2005. The United States Minor Outlying Islands is a statistical designation applying to the minor outlying islands and groups of islands that comprise eight United States insular areas in the Pacific Ocean (Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll, and Wake Island) and two ...
He decided instead to shell Howland with Ro-64′s 76.2-millimeter (3 in) deck gun, and at 02:00 JST on 11 December 1941 Ro-64 began her bombardment, firing at the island′s wireless and weather station, barracks, and lighthouse. [3] She departed the Howland area at 03:00 JST to rendezvous with Ro-68 off Baker Island, which Ro-68 had bombarded ...
USCGC Itasca was a Lake-class cutter of the United States Coast Guard launched on 16 November 1929 and commissioned 12 July 1930. It acted as "picket ship" supporting Amelia Earhart's 1937 world flight attempt, and was the last vessel in radio contact with her and Fred Noonan as they were supposed to be reaching Howland Island in the Pacific.
Holland Smith was born on April 20, 1882, in Hatchechubbee, Alabama, to John V. Smith and his wife Cornelia Caroline McTyeire, both strict Methodists. [2] He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Auburn University (then known as Alabama Polytechnic Institute) in 1901.