Individual #Tarawa-Makin__Tarawa__Makin battles in World War II in the Pacific (November 1943); US Marines took the islands from the Japanese after bitter fighting
instance of: #amphibious_assault
part of: #World_War_II__World_War___Second_World_War a war between the Allies (Australia Belgium Bolivia Brazil Canada China Colombia Costa-Rico Cuba Czechoslovakia Dominican-Republic El-Salvador Ethiopia Greece Guatemala Haiti Honduras India Iran Iraq Luxembourg Mexico Netherlands New-Zealand Nicaragua Norway Panama Philippines Poland South-Africa United-Kingdom US USSR Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania Bulgaria Finland Germany Hungary Italy Japan Rumania Slovakia Thailand) from 1939 to 1945
part of: #Gilbert_Islands a group of islands in Micronesia southwest of Hawaii; formerly part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands until it became part of the Republic of Kiribati in 1979
part of: #Kiribati__Republic_of_Kiribati an island republic in the west central Pacific just south of the equator
part of: #Federated_States_of_Micronesia__Micronesia__TT a country scattered over Micronesia with a constitutional government in free association with the United States; achieved independence in 1986
part of: #Micronesia the islands in the northwestern part of Oceania
part of: #Oceania__Oceanica a large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago)
part of: #Pacific_Ocean__Pacific the largest ocean in the world
part of: #Austronesia islands of central and South Pacific (Indonesia and Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia)
part of: #Pacific_Ocean__Pacific the largest ocean in the world
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