The Battle of Tarawa was a battle fought early during the Galactic Civil War at Tarawa, between the Alliance to Restore the Republic and the Galactic Empire. General Jan Dodonna managed to destroy a fleet of Star Destroyers with Y-wing starfighters.
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| - The Battle of Tarawa was a battle fought early during the Galactic Civil War at Tarawa, between the Alliance to Restore the Republic and the Galactic Empire. General Jan Dodonna managed to destroy a fleet of Star Destroyers with Y-wing starfighters.
- The Battle of Tarawa was name for the US invasion of Tarawa Atoll in the Pacific Theater that began on November 20, 1943. The battle was a part of the wider island hopping strategy used by American Admiral Chester Nimitz during the war. More specifically, the Battle of Tarawa was included in Operation Galvanic, the codename for the invasion of the Gilbert Islands. Another island invaded as part of Galvanic was Makin Atoll which had been fortified prior to invasion alongside Tarawa due to the Makin Atoll Raid which had occurred earlier in the war. In all, the battle for Tarawa lasted approximately three days, ending on November 23, 1943.
- The Battle of Tarawa (US code name Operation Galvanic) was a battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II, fought from November 20 to November 23, 1943. It took place at the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands, located in what is now the nation of Kiribati. Nearly 6,400 Japanese, Koreans, and Americans died in the fighting, mostly on and around the small island of Betio.
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- Julian C. Smith
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| - Battle of Tarawa
- With the Marines at Tarawa
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| - Last week some 2,000 or 3,000 United States Marines, most of them now dead or wounded, gave the nation a name to stand beside those of Concord Bridge, the Bon Homme Richard, the Alamo, Little Big Horn, and Belleau Wood. The name was Tarawa.
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| - A photograph of the US invasion force at Tarawa.
- Lt Alexander Bonnyman and his assault party storming a Japanese stronghold. Bonnyman received the Medal of Honor posthumously.
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- 2101(xsd:integer)
- 4690(xsd:integer)
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- U.S. Marine Corps:
- U.S. Navy:
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| - United States victory
- American victory
- Alliance victory
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- **Third Special Base Defense Force
**Seventh Sasebo Special Naval Landing Force
- *2nd Marine Division
**18,000 Marines
*27th Infantry Division
**35,000 Troops
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- Tarawa Atoll
- Betio, Tarawa Atoll
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| - The Battle of Tarawa was name for the US invasion of Tarawa Atoll in the Pacific Theater that began on November 20, 1943. The battle was a part of the wider island hopping strategy used by American Admiral Chester Nimitz during the war. More specifically, the Battle of Tarawa was included in Operation Galvanic, the codename for the invasion of the Gilbert Islands. Another island invaded as part of Galvanic was Makin Atoll which had been fortified prior to invasion alongside Tarawa due to the Makin Atoll Raid which had occurred earlier in the war. In all, the battle for Tarawa lasted approximately three days, ending on November 23, 1943. Tarawa was a strategic island to the United States because it was a launching point for the future invasion of the Marshall Islands and later, the Mariana Islands. Following the American capture of Tarawa, out of about 35,000 US marines, 978 had been killed with 2,190 marines wounded. By comparison, out of the 4,690 original Japanese troops, 17 soldiers, including 1 officer survived, alongside 120 laborers.
- The Battle of Tarawa (US code name Operation Galvanic) was a battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II, fought from November 20 to November 23, 1943. It took place at the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands, located in what is now the nation of Kiribati. Nearly 6,400 Japanese, Koreans, and Americans died in the fighting, mostly on and around the small island of Betio. The Battle of Tarawa was the first American 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 an amphibious landing. Previous landings met little or no initial resistance, but this time the 4,500 Japanese defenders were well-supplied and well-prepared, and they fought almost to the last man, exacting a heavy toll on the United States Marine Corps. The US had suffered similar casualties in other campaigns, for example over the six months of the Guadalcanal Campaign, but in this case the losses were incurred within the space of 76 hours.
- The Battle of Tarawa was a battle fought early during the Galactic Civil War at Tarawa, between the Alliance to Restore the Republic and the Galactic Empire. General Jan Dodonna managed to destroy a fleet of Star Destroyers with Y-wing starfighters.
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