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The Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign was a series of engagements fought from August 1942 to February 1944, in the Pacific theatre of World War II between the United States and Japan. They were the first battles of a large-scale offensive across the Central Pacific by the United States Pacific Fleet and Marine Corps. The goal of the ...
Kwajalein Atoll is in the heart of the Marshall Islands. It lies in the Ralik Chain, 2,100 nmi (2,400 mi; 3,900 km) southwest of Honolulu, Hawaii at Kwajalein is the world's largest coral atoll and comprises 93 islands and islets; it has a land area of 1,560 acres (6.33 km 2) [1]: 12 and surrounds one of the largest lagoons in the world, measuring 324 mi 2 (839 km 2) in size.
The Marshalls–Gilberts raids were tactical airstrikes and naval artillery attacks by United States Navy aircraft carrier and other warship forces against Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) garrisons in the Marshall and Gilbert Islands on 1 February 1942.
The Battle of Eniwetok was 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 followed the American success in the Battle of Kwajalein to the southeast.
Hailstorm Over Truk Lagoon: Operations Against Truk by Carrier Task Force 58, 17 and 18 February 1944, and the Shipwrecks of World War II. Oregon: Resource Publications. ISBN 1-59752-347-X. Peattie, Mark (1992). Nan'Yo: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese in Micronesia, 1885–1945 (Pacific Islands Monograph Series). University of Hawaii Press.
Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, November 1943 – February 1944 Battle of Tarawa, 20–23 November 1943 [3] Battle of Makin, 20–23 November 1943; Battle of Kwajalein, 31 January – 3 February 1944: 751 [7] Raid on Truk, 17–18 February 1944; Battle of Eniwetok, 17–23 February 1944 [8] Mariana and Palau Islands campaign, 1944
Enewetok Atoll, Marshall Islands Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign 1,269 (313 killed, 879 wounded, 77 missing) [3] American victory Japan Ended in seizure of Eniwetok as a forward base for future offensives into the Japanese South Seas Mandate; Battle of Saipan: June 15, 1944 July 9, 1944 Saipan, Mariana Islands: Mariana and Palau Islands ...
At the end of the war, the Marshall Islands came under the control of the United States as part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands until the independence of the Marshall Islands in 1986. Marshall Islands were given self-government on 1 May 1979. Compact of Free Association was make between the Marshall Islands and United States on 21 ...