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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 II between the United States and Japan. They were the first steps of the drive across the Central Pacific by the United States Pacific Fleet and Marine Corps. The purpose was to establish ...
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.
Map of Eniwetok Atoll. 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.
Pages in category "Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
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
Northern Solomons: 22 February 1943 – 21 November 1944, part of the Solomon Islands campaign; Eastern Mandates: 31 January – 14 June 1944, allied landings on Kwajalein and Eniwetok during the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign; Western Pacific: 15 June 1944 – 2 September 1945, the Mariana and Palau Islands campaign
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The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II. United States Army Center of Military History. CMH Pub 72-4. Archived from the original on 2 February 2012; Crowl, Philip A.; Edmund G. Love (1955). "Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls". United States Army in World War II – The War in the Pacific. Office of the Chief of Military History, Department ...