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Battle of Makin, 20–23 November 1943.
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- Captured Japanese 70mm Type 92 battalion gun – Makin Atoll
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- Landing Craft and LVT – Makin Atoll 1943
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- Soldiers view bodies of Japanese troops killed during the invasion of Makin
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- Bombardment of Makin Island viewed from USS Baltimore
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- Soldiers in Jeep and on bicycle on newly captured Makin
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- Captured Type 92 Lewis machine gun on tripod, Makin Atoll 1943
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- US Troops inspect Japanese dummy gun on Makin Island
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- Medics carry wounded 165th Infantry soldier on Makin
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- US officer of the 165th Infantry cuts up a piece of canned meat for hungry children that evacuated their village for the safety of Red Beach, Butaritari Island, Makin Atoll
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- Litter bearing Jeep carries wounded from combat area on Makin
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- LVT and supplies, Makin Atoll beach
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- Captured Japanese 76,2 mm naval anti-aircraft gun Type 3 – Makin Atoll
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- US Troops move thru ruins of Japanese warehouse on Makin
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- 27th Division troops digging foxholes on Butaritari
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- First Wave of US assault troops and Hellcats at Makin
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- Army invades Makin Island Gilbert Islands
Battle of Makin, 20–23 November 1943.
Bibliography:
- The Capture of Makin (20-24 November 1943), Center of Military History United States Army
- Samuel Eliot Morison: History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. 7: Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls, June 1942 – April 1944
- Henry I Shaw Jr.. Bernard C. Nalty: Central Pacific Drive: History of U. S. Marine Corps Operations in World War II, Volume III
- Ian W. Toll: The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944
- Joseph H. Alexander USMC (Ret.) – Storm Landings: Epic Amphibious Battles in the Central Pacific
- Gordon L. Rottman – US Marine Corps Pacific Theater of Operations 1943-1944, Osprey Battle Orders 07
- R.V. Burgin, Bill Marvel: Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific