Gilbert Islands Campaign Photographs

96 items in this album on 5 pages.


US Marines at Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, 20-23 Nov 1943. Note 2-man .30 cal machine gun team (gunner with the gun on his shoulder and loader two steps ahead with tripod).	US Marines inspecting Japanese trenches, Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, 20-23 Nov 1943

US Marines on Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, Nov 1943. Note M2 Flamethrower leaning against the wall, right center.	US Marines unloading ammunition from a jeep which had just been driven directly off of a landing barge, Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, Nov 1943

US Marines wading through the waters off Tarawa as they came in to reinforce Marines already on the island, Gilbert Islands, Nov 1943	US Navy doctor bandaging a head wound for a US Marine, Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, Nov 1943; note the Marine standing on left held a flask of blood plasma

Wounded US Marine being evacuated from Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, Nov 1943	Colonel Merritt Edson and Colonel David Shoup met over Betio tactics, Tarawa Atoll, 23 Nov 1943

Men and supplies on the beach of Betio, Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, late Nov 1943	US Marine 75mm howitzer team, Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, 20-23 Nov 1943

US Marines at Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, late Nov 1943	US Marines on the landing beach at Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, late Nov 1943

American base at Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, Nov 1943	American flag flying over Betio, Tarawa Atoll, 24 Nov 1943

Destruction on Betio after battle, Tarawa Atoll, 24 Nov 1943	Enterprise underway during Gilberts operation, 24 Nov 1943

Looking east down the airfield, Betio, Tarawa Atoll, 24 Nov 1943	Tarawa beach after American conquest, Gilbert Islands, Nov 1943

US Marine code talker on Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, Nov 1943	US flag on Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, late Nov 1943