WW2 · BATTLE SITE · 1943

Battle of Tarawa (1943)

On the WW2 map as “Tarawa”

Nov 1943 — About 6,400 people die in 76 hours of fighting for an island of roughly three square kilometers. Tarawa shows how costly the island road toward Japan can be.

When: Nov 1943
Type: Battle site
Chapter: Pacific island-hopping campaign (chapter 11 of WW2)
Atlas: The War Room — WW2, 1936–1945

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Map showing Battle of Tarawa (1943), battle site in The War Room — WW2, 1936–1945 — BATTLE SITE · THE WAR ROOM — WW2, 1936–1945

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · US Army Center of Military History — American Military History, The War Against Japan · US War Department — Atlas of the World Battle Fronts (1945) · Cliopatria v0.2.1 — dated political boundaries · Natural Earth — physical reference geography

Source details

Office of the Chief of Military History,1969, chapter23. Official US Army text and maps; public domain
United States War Department, General Staff,1945. US Army official work; public domain
Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY4.0 · Dated polity and constituent territory selections; campaign-dependent occupation overlays reconstructed separately.
Natural Earth. Public domain

The separately published Tibetan polity remains neutral. The authored modern-China interaction region does not make Tibet a Chinese battlefield or Allied-controlled territory.

The dates of published political outlines retain the resolution available in their sources. Military fronts and operational perimeters have their own source and method records.

reconstruction: 1936–1937 · reconstruction: 1936–1937 source state · reconstruction: 1943 · reconstruction: 1943.2 · reconstruction: February1943 afterGuadalcanal/Papua · vector: 1890–1978 · vector: 1890–2023 · vector: 1939–1943 · vector: 1939–1946

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