They have predicted that Tarawa atoll, the nation’s capital, will become uninhabitable within a generation. But many I-Kiribati refuse to think of their homeland as a “disappearing island ...

The maneuver schemes "for the landing of the assault waves at Betio Island in Tarawa Atoll brought forth the most comprehensive landing attack orders promulgated up to that date in the Pacific ...

Cpl. McNichol died on the island of Betio on Nov. 21, 1943, the second day of the three-day battle at Tarawa atoll, where 1,000 Marines and sailors were killed and where the Japanese defenders ...

The remains were discovered in March on the Pacific atoll of Tarawa, which was the scene of a three-day battle with the Japanese in November 1943. US defence department officials plan to transport ...

But this was like saying hello." It was within the Tarawa atoll, on a tropical sandbar the size of the National Mall, where U.S. Marines and Navy sailors confronted the forces of an emboldened ...

It took place at the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and was part of Operation Galvanic, the U.S. invasion of the Gilberts. Nearly 6,400 Japanese, Koreans, and Americans died in the fighting.