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The Battle of Christmas Island was a small engagement which began on 31 March 1942, during World War II.Assisted by a mutiny of soldiers of the British Indian Army against their British officers, Imperial Japanese Army troops were able to occupy Christmas Island without any land-based resistance.
Operation Grapple was a set of four series of British nuclear weapons tests of early atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs carried out in 1957 and 1958 at Malden Island and Kiritimati (Christmas Island) in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands in the Pacific Ocean (modern Kiribati) as part of the British hydrogen bomb programme.
Naval Base Baker Island on Baker Island to support Baker Island Airfield; Howland Island seaplane base; Naval base Kingman Reef; Christmas Island, Kiribati, refuelling and weather station, Cassidy Airfield; Naval Base Hawaii; Naval Air Station Barbers Point and Submarine base Barbers Point; Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay US Navy base 1939 ...
On 29 November 1941, Operation Gi [2] (for Gilbert Islands) was decided within the Japanese 4th Fleet and departed from Truk, headquarters of the South Seas Mandate.The flagship was the minelayer Okinoshima, and the operation included the minelayers Tsugaru and Tenyo Maru and cruiser Tokiwa, Nagata Maru, escorted by Asanagi and Yūnagi of the Destroyer Division 29/Section 1.
The raids, however, did help lift the morale of the U.S. Navy and the American public, still reeling from the Pearl Harbor attack and the loss of Wake Island. The raids also provided valuable experience in carrier air operations, which hardened the U.S. carrier groups for future combat against Japanese forces.
Operation Chronicle was the Allied invasion of Woodlark and Kiriwina Islands, in the South West Pacific, during World War II.The operation was a subordinate action that formed part of the wider Operation Cartwheel, the advance towards Rabaul.
Kiritimati (Gilbertese pronunciation: [kiˈrɪsmæs]), also known as Christmas Island, is a Pacific Ocean atoll in the northern Line Islands. It is part of the Republic of Kiribati . The name is derived from the English word "Christmas" written in Gilbertese according to its phonology , in which the combination ti is pronounced /s/.
Kiribati in World War II — as the Gilbert and Ellice Islands protectorate of the British Western Pacific Territories, during the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.