TARAWA

• 1943 battle site

• 1943 Pacific battle site

• 1943 U.S. victory site

• Atoll of Kiribati

• Atoll taken in WWII

• Kiribati capital

• Marine victory site of '43

• One of the Gilbert Islands

• One of the Gilbert Islands, a Marine victory site of '43

• Pacific atoll in 1943 fighting

• Pacific atoll won by U.S., 1943

• Pacific battle site of 1943

• Site of a 1943 U.S. victory in the Pacific

• South ___ (Kiribati's capital)

• W.W. II battle atoll

• WWII Pacific battle site

• National capital of Kiribati

• Battles in World War II in the Pacific (November 1943)

• US Marines took the islands from the Japanese after bitter fighting