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"A Million Men, a Hundred Years" - The Battle of Tarawa
   
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A collection of missions depicting the Battle of Tarawa in November 1943. Admiral Keiji Shibazaki once boasted that it would take a million men, a hundred years to take Tarawa. The US Marines of the 2nd Marine Division would do it in 76 hours at the cost of nearly 7 thousand lives on both American and Japanese forces.
Items (12)
Red Beach 1 [Mission]
Created by Bcarreon93
Map: Betio, Tarawa Atoll 1943 - 11/20/1943 Gamemode: Operation (2 phases) Invaders: United States (allies) Defenders: Japan (axis) November 20th, 1943. The first wave of the US Marine landing on the island of Tarawa has begun and the first landing is to ta...
Red Beach 2 [Mission]
Created by Bcarreon93
Map: Betio, Tarawa Atoll 1943 - 11/20/1943 Gamemode: Operation (2 phases) Invaders: United States (allies) Defenders: Japan (axis) November 20th, 1943 – The Second invasion beach on the island of Betio. Here, the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines wade ashore unde...
Red Beach 3 [Mission]
Created by Bcarreon93
Map: Betio, Tarawa Atoll 1943 - 11/20/1943 Gamemode: Operation (2 phases) Invaders: United States (allies) Defenders: Japan (axis) November 20th, 1943 Red Beach 3, the third invasion beach for the first day, here the 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines face extreme...
Betio Airfield Assault [Mission]
Created by Bcarreon93
Map: Betio, Tarawa Atoll 1943 - 11/20/1943 Gamemode: Operation (3 phases) Invaders: United States (allies) Defenders: Japan (axis) On the afternoon of November 20th, the Marines of 2/2, 2/8 and 3/8 are pushing inland from Red Beaches 2 and 3 and face extre...
Temakin Point [Mission]
Created by Bcarreon93
Map: Betio, Tarawa Atoll 1943 - 11/21/1943 Gamemode: Operation (3 phases) Invaders: United States (allies) Defenders: Japan (axis) November 21st, 1943. Day 2 of the Battle of Tarawa. After a long hard fought fight the previous day, the remnants of 1 / 2, 2...
Green Beach [Mission]
Created by Bcarreon93
Map: Betio, Tarawa Atoll 1943 - 11/21/1943 Gamemode: Operation (5 phases) Invaders: United States (allies) Defenders: Japan (axis) November 21st, late in the day. The 1st battalion, 6th Marine Regiment lands on Green Beach which had been secured only that ...
The Burns-Philp Wharf [Mission]
Created by Bcarreon93
Map: Betio, Tarawa Atoll 1943 - 11/22/1943 Gamemode: Operation (5 phases) Invaders: United States (allies) Defenders: Japan (axis) November 22nd, 1943 – 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines begins pushing east from the Pier along Red Beach 3 to their left and the ai...
Black Beach [Mission]
Created by Bcarreon93
Map: Betio, Tarawa Atoll 1943 - 11/22/1943 Gamemode: Operation (4 phases) Invaders: United States (allies) Defenders: Japan (axis) Originally intended as a backup landing beach and exposed to the open ocean, Black Beach was not used in the landings whatsoe...
The Banzai Attack [Mission]
Created by Bcarreon93
Map: Betio, Tarawa Atoll 1943 - 11/23/1943 Gamemode: Operation (1 phases) Invaders: Japan (axis) Defenders: United States (allies) After the Marines of 1/6 and 2/8 linked up east of the airfield on the afternoon of November 22nd, 1943, they forged a contin...
The Bird's Throat [Mission]
Created by Bcarreon93
Map: Betio, Tarawa Atoll 1943 - 11/23/1943 Gamemode: Operation (3 phases) Invaders: United States (allies) Defenders: Japan (axis) The morning after the Banzai Attack, the Marines of 1st Battalion 8th Marines begin their final attack on a small isolated po...
Takarongo Point [Mission]
Created by Bcarreon93
Map: Betio, Tarawa Atoll 1943 - 11/23/1943 Gamemode: Operation (7 phases) Invaders: United States (allies) Defenders: Japan (axis) The day after the Banzai Attack on the 1st Battalion 6th Marines line, 1/6 is pulled off the line and sent back to Green beac...