Large parts of the village Eita has drowned in flooding from the sea. The people of Kiribati are under pressure to relocate due to sea level rise....
Tarawa- US Marines are seen firing from behind a sand bag entrenchment which they threw up as protection on the flat island of Tarawa where the...
American Marines crouch down amidst Japanese fire on Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, while the leader points to Japanese entrenchments. Over 1000 Marines...
Tarawa, Gilbert Islands...Going In With Cold Steel At Tarawa. U. S. Marines charge across open ground from the beach at Tarawa to the airport, which...
An American Marine fires on a Japanese pillbox during the Battle of Tarawa, a Pacific atoll in the Gilbert Islands , 20th-23rd November 1943.
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...
Marine hurls a grenade in the direction of the enemy from his sandbagged position. Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, ca. November 21-24, 1943.
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...
Tarawa, Gilbert Islands: A camouflaged Marine, one of the initial invaders of Tarawa--where they fought the fiercest battle in Marine Corps...
Marines take cover a coral mound during combat, Tarawa, Kiribati, 1943. The palm trees sway due to the concussion of the heavy guns used by both the...
Marine Corporal Obie R Newcomb and Corporal Raymond Matjasic, posing beside the wreckage of a Japanese plane, during the Pacific Campaign of World...
Marines from the 2nd Marine Division of V Amphibious Corps, United States Marine Corps take cover after landing at Betio beach on Tarawa Atoll from...
Dead Bodies and Damaged U.S. Tank in Water during Battle of Tarawa, Tarawa Atoll, Gilbert Islands, November 1943.
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.
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...
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...
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...
Sprawled bodies on the beach of Tarawa, testifying to the ferocity of the struggle for this stretch of sand. November 1943.
Two US Marines go over the Japanese wall fortification during the battle for the Japanese held island of Tarawa, Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, Kiribati,...
These three marine officers on Tarawa look over the scene of battle after the smoke had cleared from the field where the U.S. Marines fought the...
Al Quiet on Tarawa. Tarawa: This was one strongpoint on bloody Tarawa. One of many that had to be eliminated by the U.S. Marines before the Jap base...
Tarawa- Picture shows dead bodies lying on the ground after the seige on the Tarawa Airport during World War II. Undated photo circa 1940s.
South Pacific: An unidentified officer of the forces stationed at Tarawa stands over the grave of a fellow officer in the cemetery for United States...
It's getting really bad, says villager Beia Tiim. The extreme high tide used to come every three or four years - now it comes every three months....
It's getting really bad, says villager Beia Tiim. The extreme high tide used to come every three or four years - now it comes every three months....
Marine carrying extra ammunition and grenades during the Pacific Campaign of World War Two, Tarawa, Kiribati, circa 1941-1945.
Marines huddled on the beaches during the Battle of Tarawa in World War Two, Kiribati, November 1943.
Dead Japanese soldiers strew the sands of Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, as Marines continue their 'mopping up' operations on the island which earned the...
20th-23rd November 1943: US Marine Leo Bassetto of Company G, 8th Regiment, 2nd Marine division, rises in a sand-bagged machine gun nest to throw a...
British rowers, John Fairfax and Sylvia Cook, arriving at Tarawa, on their journey by boat from San Francisco.
Dead bodies lie on the beach front with onlooking soldiers during the Battle of Tarawa, World War II, Kiribati Islands, 1943.
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Owen L. Conner, curator Uniforms and Heraldry for the National Museum of the Marine Corps, unwraps pieces of a wooden cross bearing the name of Sgt....
Marines Engaged in Battle on Beachhead, Battle of Tarawa, Tarawa Atoll, Gilbert Islands, November 1943.
Wounded U.S. Marines on Raft being Transported to Ship, Battle of Tarawa, Tarawa Atoll, Gilbert Islands, November 1943.
Marines with Captured Japanese Soldiers and Supplies, Battle of Tarawa, Tarawa Atoll, Gilbert Islands, November 1943.
Mushroom cloud rises over the Pacific moments after the detonation of Britain's second Hydrogen bomb. As seen by members of the press and naval...
Marine Corps bugler play taps at the funeral of Marine Pvt. Harry K. Tye of Orinoco, Kentucky to his gave site. He was buried with full military...
Marine Corps bugler play taps at the funeral of Marine Pvt. Harry K. Tye of Orinoco, Kentucky to his gave site. He was buried with full military...
Display in the new National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, Virginia is pictured on November 1, 2006. In this display in the Leatherneck...
In the aftermath of the Battle of Tarawa, three US Marines relax in the shade with bottles of Japanese alcohol, Tarawa Atoll, November 1943.
