bigpigeon.us webpage WWII - Japan > Central Pacific > Marshall Islands, updated by RAC 18 May 2022. Not yet complete.
Overview - The Marshall Islands Campaign - January - February 1944
Overview - The Marshall Islands Campaign - January - February 1944
- The Marshall Islands were a former German colony administered by Japan as a League of Nations mandate after WW I. They were sometimes called the Eastern Mandates, to distinguish from the Mariana and Caroline islands further to the west, which the Japanese also administered.
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The Marshall Islands, Kwajalein Atoll:
531 dead 4th Marine Division and 7th Infantry Division |
Kwajalein Atoll, January 1944
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The Marshall Islands, Eniwetok Atoll:
390 dead 22nd Marine Regiment 106th Infantry Regiment |
Eniwetok Atoll, 1944
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Sources for the Marshall Islands webpage:
Pottawattamie County, Iowa Area WW II Dead - The Marshall Islands:
- The Kwajalein Atoll, January 1944 map is courtesy of the United States Military Academy at https://www.westpoint.edu/academics/academic-departments/history/world-war-two-asia.
- The Eniwetok Atoll, 1944 map is courtesy of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Battle_of_Eniwetok_map.png.
Pottawattamie County, Iowa Area WW II Dead - The Marshall Islands:
- Taken from the bigpigeon.us WW II Dead webarea.