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2,636 troops 2,200 construction laborers (1,200 Korean and 1,000 Japanese) 14 tanks 40 artillery pieces 14 naval guns
Casualties and losses
U.S. Marine Corps:
1,009 killed[2]
2,101 wounded[2]
U.S. Navy:
1 Destroyer damaged by coastal guns
4,690 killed (including both construction laborers and Japanese soldiers),
At least 40% of defenders were killed during the naval bombardment before H-hour.[3] 17 soldiers captured 129 Korean laborers captured 14 tanks destroyed
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Location within Pacific Ocean
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Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign
Marshalls–Gilberts raids
1st Makin
Tarawa
2nd Makin
Kwajalein
Hailstone
Eniwetok
The Battle of Tarawa was fought on 20–23 November 1943 between the United States and Japan at the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands, and was part of Operation Galvanic, the U.S. invasion of the Gilberts.[4] Nearly 6,400 Japanese, Koreans, and Americans died in the fight, mostly on and around the small island of Betio, in the extreme southwest of Tarawa Atoll.[5]
The Battle of Tarawa was the first American offensive in the critical Central Pacific region. It was also the first time in the Pacific War that the United States faced serious Japanese opposition to an amphibious landing.[6] Previous landings had met little to no initial resistance,[7][a] but on Tarawa 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 losses on Tarawa were incurred within 76 hours.
^"Battle of Tarawa". History.com. 16 February 2016.
^ abWright 2004, p. 93.
^Morison, Samuel (1952). Aleutians Gilberts And Marshalls June 1942 April 1944. Oxford University. p. 158.
^"Battle of Tarawa". World War 2 Facts. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
^Alexander 1993, p. 50.
^Wheeler 1983, p. 170.
^Morison 1951, p. 15.
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