Tarawa Island Operation Galvanic 1943 | World War Photos

Tarawa

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: Marines march Japanese prisoners along Tarawa Beach

: Marines in “The Lousy Lousy Loung” dugout on Tarawa

: Tarawa Marines and Japanese Booty

: Marines with bottle of Saki and Kirin and Asahi Beer on Tarawa

: Marine with a Japanese Kurogane motor tricycle Sanrinsha captured on Tarawa

: Marine gives aid to buddy wounded by shrapnel on Tarawa

: Marines carry wounded buddy to dressing station on Tarawa

: Concrete bunker on Tarawa and destroyed Ha-Go tank Betio

: Marine hurls hand grenade at Japanese position on Tarawa

: Marine firing on Japanese pillbox on Tarawa

: American flag flies from shell blasted tree on Tarawa

: Marines with captured Japanese bicycle on Tarawa

: Marine examines ruins of shinto temple on Tarawa

: Marine with carbine ready to go over the top on Tarawa

: Marines on Red Beach 3 advancing to burns Phillips Pier Tarawa

: Marines give blood transfusion to wounded comrade on Tarawa

: Marines with Pin-Up girl picture in Landing Craft off Tarawa

: Shattered beach at Betio Island Tarawa Atoll 24 November 1943

: US Tarawa Task Group

: Marines rest on captured Red Beach Betio

: Troops inspect wreckage of Japanese plane on Tarawa

: Dead Japanese soldiers atop pillbox

: Japanese Type 92 Machine Gun in Bunker on Betio

: 6th Marines advance eastward on Tarawa on D-Day +2

: 2nd Marine Division LVT wreck Betio Island

: Bodies of fallen Japanese soldiers in gully on Tarawa

: Marines on Red Beach Betio on 2nd Day 11.00 AM of Battle at Tarawa

: White crosses mark graves in largest U.S. Cemetery on Tarawa 1944

: 2nd Marine Division LCVP wave bound for Tarawa

: Lt Alexander Bonnyman attack on pillbox on Tarawa

: Colonel Evans Carlson and Col Merritt Edson (MOH) confer on Tarawa

: Bodies of fallen Japanese soldiers on Tarawa

: Marines approach Japanese bomb proof shelter on Tarawa

: Japanese stronghold

: General Smith, Admiral Nimitz and Gen. Richardson on Tarawa

: 2nd Marine Division Commo Center on Betio Island Tarawa

: Marines at camp on Tarawa beach a week after landings

: 2nd Marine Division fighting on Betio

: U.S. bombers blasting Japanese Airfield at Tarawa 1943

: British 8 Inch gun at Tarawa 1943

: Wounded Marine squad leader directs attack on Tarawa

: Japanese coast defense gun Betio Island

: Coast Guardsmen inspect Japanese field gun on Tarawa

: 2nd Marine Division Riflemen pinned down Betio Island

: Marines resting by LVT “23” on Red Beach 3 at Tarawa

: Marines blast Japanese pillbox on Tarawa

: Maj Jim Crowe with 2d Battalion, 8th Marines on Red Beach 3

: Marines at camp on Tarawa beach a week after landings 2

: Cross topped graves of US Marines beside camp on Tarawa 1944

: Marines manning field telephone at Communications Post on Tarawa

: Marines storm Japanese held airport on Tarawa

: Marines on Tarawa display various Japanese battle trophies

: Dead Japanese soldiers and destroyed steel-pillbox Command Post

: Bodies of Japanese soldiers by KO’d Vickers gun at Betio

: Marine with Japanese medical kit at dugout hospital on Tarawa

: Marine searches wreckage for wounded buddies on Tarawa

: Combat photographers who landed with first wave of Marines on Tarawa

: Marines in Trench on Tarawa

: USMC reinforcements march down pier

: Marines advancing toward Japanese position on Tarawa

: Marines swarm over high embankment on Beach of Tarawa

: Two injured pigs get expert medical attention from Marine regiment surgeon LCDR Glenn G. English at first aid station on Tarawa

: Japanese ammunition dump on Tarawa Island after US pilot scored a direct hit from his dive-bomber

: Knocked-out Type 95 Ha-Go tank in front of the Japanese command post off Red Beach 3 on Tarawa

: Bodies of Japanese soldiers in U.S. landing barge which they had captured from invading Marines on Tarawa beach

: Marine combat photographer Norm Hatch gives a drink of water to a kitten beside a knocked-out Japanese Type 95 tank

: Wounded Marine Battle Of Tarawa 1943

: Capture Japanese 140 mm Coast Artillery Tarawa 1943

: 2nd Marine Division Battle of Tarawa

: Marine with Grenades and Ammo on Tarawa Beach 1943

: Marines in action Battle of Tarawa 3

: Marines take cover behind sand dunes on Beach of Tarawa

: 2nd Marine Division Battle of Tarawa 1943

: Marines Battle of Tarawa Beach

: Japanese concrete bunker Tarawa Island 1943

: Marines In Action Tarawa 1943

: Tarawa Beach 1943

: Marines in action Battle of Tarawa

: Wounded Marines moved by rubber raft to larger craft off Tarawa

: Tarawa after battle Gilbert Islands

: US Marines in action Battle of Tarawa 1943

: Marines at Memorial Service for Fallen Comrades and F6F Hellcat Tarawa 1943

: marine machine gun in action Tarawa 1943

: 2nd Marine Division Marines creep Japanese pill boxes on Tarawa Island 1943

: Tarawa after battle

: Marines Tarawa Island

: Inavasion fleet Battle of Tarawa.jpg

: Marines at Memorial Service for Fallen Comrades on Tarawa 1943

: Marines Battle of Tarawa 1943

: Admiral Keiji Shibazaki’s bunker and Knocked Out Type 95 Ha-Go tank in Tarawa 1943

: Marines in action Battle of Tarawa Gilbert Islands

: Marines Red Beach 2 Tarawa 1942

: Marines Battle of Tarawa Gilbert Islands

: Marines Take Cover From Japanese Fire On Tarawa 1943

: Tarawa island beachhead 1943

: Marine 75 mm howitzer in action Tarawa

: japanese concrete bunker Tarawa 1943

: Marines Move Wounded Tarawa 1943

: Vickers 203 mm gun Tarawa pacific

: Tarawa beachhead 1943

: Capture Japanese 203 mm Coast Artillery Tarawa 1943

: LVT Stopped at the Tarawa Beach

: Marines Battle of Tarawa Operation Galvanic

: Marines and wounded Battle of Tarawa

: Marines in action Battle of Tarawa 4

: Abandoned Amtracs Tarawa 1943

: Marines in Action During Height of Battle on Tarawa 1943

: Marine throw a hand granade Tarawa 1943

: Marines in action Battle of Tarawa 2

The Battle of Tarawa was a battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, largely fought from November 20-23, 1943. It was the second time the United States was on the offensive (the Battle of Guadalcanal had been the first), and the first offensive in the critical central Pacific region. It was also the first time in the war that the United States faced serious Japanese opposition to a US amphibious landing. Previous landings met little or no initial resistance, Tarawa was to be different.