Battle of Makin
Videos
The Battle of Makin was an engagement of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought from 20 to 24 November 1943 on Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Islands.
Maj. Gen. Holland M. Smith, USMC
Maj. Gen. Ralph C. Smith, USA
Makin Island – M3 Stuart light tank, bogged down in a shell crater, holds up the advance on the narrow causeway north of Jill lake.
Butaritari
Videos
Butaritari is an atoll in the Pacific Ocean island nation of Kiribati. The atoll is roughly four-sided. The south and southeast portion of the atoll comprises a nearly continuous islet. The atoll reef
Battle of Makin
…The Battle of Makin was an 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 days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, 300 Japanese troops plus laborers of the Gilberts Invasion…
The causeway connecting Tanimaiaki and Keuea
Portrait of a native of the Makin islands, drawn by Alfred Thomas Agate (1841)
A war monument in Ukiangang village, Butaritari