What the records say
- When
- 31 Jan 1944 – 3 Feb 1944
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 8.72° N, 167.73° E
- Description
- 1944 battle of the Pacific War
- War
- World War II
Battle of Kwajalein
1944 battle in the Pacific theater of World War II
The Battle of Kwajalein was fought as part of the Pacific campaign of World War II. It took place 31 January – 3 February 1944, on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Employing learned lessons from the Battle of Tarawa, the United States launched a successful twin assault on the main islands of Kwajalein in the south and Roi-Namur in the north.
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- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “WWII: Battle of Kwajalein: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “US-amerikanische Truppen siegen im Pazifikkrieg am Ende der Schlacht um Kwajalein”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “débarquement sur Kwajalein de la Task Force 38, victoire américaine dans les îles Marshall”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Американские войска высадились на атолле Кваджалейн и других островах архипелага Маршалловы Острова”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page