U.S. Marines charge Japanese pillbox in victorious Gilbert Islands Battle. U.S.

U.S. Marines charge Japanese pillbox in victorious Gilbert Islands Battle. U.S. Marines charge through Japanese crossfire to storm a heavily reinforced enemy pillbox on Tarawa during a bitter three-day battle that resulted in the death or capture of 5.7000 Japanese soldiers and placed the South Pacific Gilbert Islands in Allied hands. Capture of the Gilberts was an important step in the Allied operations to strip Japan of all the territory she has captured by force. NI 9209