Japanese ammunition dump after an attack by American dive-bombers, during the Battle of Tarawa, a Pacific atoll in the Gilbert Islands , 20th-23rd...
The British Barquentine Alaska, trading to the Ellis and Gilbert Islands. From The Romance of the Merchant Ship, published 1931.
Warriors from The Gilbert Islands, Pacific Ocean. The Gilbert Islanders invented armour of coconut fibre to protect themselves against spears...
In the aftermath of the Battle of Tarawa, three US Marines relax in the shade with bottles of Japanese alcohol, Tarawa Atoll, November 1943.
Fighter plane takes off from the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Lexington for the defense of the island Tarawa, November 1943.
An American Marine fires on a Japanese pillbox during the Battle of Tarawa, a Pacific atoll in the Gilbert Islands , 20th-23rd November 1943.
American Marines approach a group of Japanese-occupied buildings, which have been reduced to rubble by shelling from an American destroyer during the...
Japanese command post during the Battle of Tarawa, a Pacific atoll in the Gilbert Islands , 20th-23rd November 1943.
The bodies of Japanese soldiers killed in an American attack during the Battle of Tarawa, a Pacific atoll in the Gilbert Islands , 20th-23rd November...
An American Marine goes through the wreckage of a building in search of wounded during the Battle of Tarawa, a Pacific atoll in the Gilbert Islands ,...
American Marines rest during the Battle of Tarawa, a Pacific atoll in the Gilbert Islands , 20th-23rd November 1943. In the foreground are the dead...
The bodies of Japanese soldiers killed in an American machine gun attack during the Battle of Tarawa, a Pacific atoll in the Gilbert Islands ,...
Return to Tarawa's" Director Steven C. Barber and Associate Producer Tamara Henry arrives at the 10th Annual Malibu Film Festival's screening of...
Return to Tarawa's" Director Steven C. Barber and Associate Producer Tamara Henry arrives at the 10th Annual Malibu Film Festival's screening of...
Pilots pleased over their victory during the Marshall Islands attack, grin across the tail of an F6F Hellcat on board the USS Lexington, after...
During the Battle of Tarawa, a United States Marine, an ammunition belt in one hand and a carbine rifle in the other, as he crouches beside a soldier...
War and Conflict, World War Two, Far East, Dead Japanese soldiers litter the beach at Tarawa, after American forces had taken control following...
Marine Cpl. Randy Glass, of 1/2 Charlie Company of Task Force Tarawa, walks on crutches during a company formation June 24, 2003 at Camp Lejeune,...
Marine Corporal David Wiseman from 1/2 Charlie Company is hugged after he returned from deployment in Iraq June 22, 2003 in Camp Lejeune, North...
An Iraqi girl holds a teddy bear given to her by a United States Marine from Task Force Tarawa April 9, 2003 as the Marines move through Kumayt,...
South African born British actor Louis Hayward pictured in service as a Captain with the United States Marine Corps photographic unit on the Island...
Debris of a cannon of the Japanese Imperial Army remains at a beach 50 years after the World War II on July 15, 1995 in Tarawa, Kiribati.
An American marine walks past the bodies of dead Japanese soldiers lying across the sands of Tarawa in the Pacific.
Marines land on the atoll of Tarawa on 20th November 1943. After three days of bloody fighting, the Japanese were crushed at the cost of 1000 deaths...
Members of a tank unit sit atop their giant vehicle, which is stalled in a water-filled shell hole on Tarawa. Other immobilized armored amphibious...
Tex" Rudloff poses on board his tank, which was hit several times by Japanese cannon fire on Tarawa but remained undamaged.
The body of a Japanese soldier who killed himself during the US Marines' conquest of Tarawa lies under a demolished dugout with the body of a...
Pilots clamber out of cockpits on the aircraft carrier USS Lexington, jabbering or speaking in monosyllables according to temperament, following a...
Marine hurls a grenade in the direction of the enemy from his sandbagged position. Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, ca. November 21-24, 1943.
Piloted by Ensign Byron M. Johnson, this F6F Hellcat crashes onto the deck of the USS Enterprise while en route to attack Makin Island in the Gilbert...
Human skull and a recruiting sign posted to a palm tree, show a little black humor on Tarawa during World War II. Winter 1943.
Marines prepare to advance from behind sandbag barricades. | Location: Tarawa Island, Gilbert Islands.
Artillery shells and helmets temporarily mark the graves of Marines who died taking Tarawa. November 1943.
Taking the slim protection that a blasted tree affords, this Marine shoots the Japanese in a pill box. A pill box must be shot through the small...
Marines wounded during the landing on Tarawa are towed out on rubber boats by their buddies to larger vessels that will take them to base hospitals...
Grumman F6F Hellcat takes off from the USS Lexington during operations in the Marshall and Gilbert Islands in November 1943.
Army troops pause for a look at a Japanese seaplane during the battle of Makin. The plane was under repair in the lagoon when the invasion started....
Two enlisted men of the ill-fated U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Liscome Bay, torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in the Gilbert Islands, are buried at sea...
165th Infantry assault wave attacking Butaritari, Yellow Beach Two, find it slow going in the coral bottom waters. Japanese machine gun fire from the...
Sprawled bodies on the beach of Tarawa, testifying to the ferocity of the struggle for this stretch of sand. November 1943.
Kiribati - Children play among the ruins of a levee destroyed by rough waves in Tarawa, Kiribati, in May 2012. The South Pacific island nation is...
Kiribati - Children walk on a submerged road in Tarawa, Kiribati, in May 2012. The South Pacific island nation is considered particularly vulnerable...
Kiribati - A man points to some ruins believed to be an old gun battery of the Japanese military in Tarawa, Kiribati, in May 2012. The South Pacific...
Kiribati - Gunshot marks pepper the wall of buildings believed to have been used as a command center by the Japanese military in Tarawa, Kiribati, in...
Kiribati - Photo shows a concrete bastion used by the Japanese military in Tarawa, Kiribati, in May 2012. The South Pacific island nation is...
Kiribati - A coconut tree is seen withered from the impact of rising sea levels near the shore in Tarawa, Kiribati, on May 16, 2012. The South...
Kiribati - A revetment to prevent submergence is seen around the ruins of an 8-inch cannon abandoned by the former Japanese military in Tarawa,...
Kiribati - A man studies building construction at a job training school in Tarawa, Kiribati, on May 16 in the hope of finding work abroad. The South...
Kiribati - A woman holds her grandchild as she sits on the site in Tarawa, Kiribati, on May 16 where her home used to be until rough waves washed it...
Two US Marines go over the Japanese wall fortification during the battle for the Japanese held island of Tarawa, Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, Kiribati,...
