The Bloody Start of Island Hopping in the Pacific: Tarawa 1943 (WW2 Documentary)

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Get Nebula with 40% off annual subscription with my link: https://go.nebula.tv/realtimehistory Watch Epic History's WW2 Series: https://nebula.tv/videos/epichistorytv-road-to-ww2-1931-34?ref=realtimehistory The Marine and US Army landing on the Tarawa Atoll's Betio and Makin islands were the first operations in the new Central Pacific front of the Pacific War. Tarawa was one of the deadliest amphibious landings for the Marine Corps which hadn't yet perfected such complex operations. But the lessons learned at Tarawa would already be applied a few months later at Kwajalein and Eniwetok. » SUPPORT US https://patreon.com/realtimehistory https://nebula.tv/realtimehistory » THANK YOU TO OUR CO-PRODUCERS George Durrett, Luis Gonzalez, Mike Cumings, Jr., Charles Shananaquet II, Joel Sanchez, shane cawthon, Andrew Thomas Mooney, Chris Rohde, Bruce D, Jim Frame, Glenn Sugden, Lisa Anderson, George Haramundanis, G S, Kempf Mario, jhgBo8jigr hzufjkl, Gayle Elizabeth, Glenn G Webb, Stephen D Nugent PsyD, Daniel L Garza, Chris Daley, Simen Røste, Amy Williams, Jim F Barlow, Taylor Allen, Adam Smith, Josh Bruder, Konstantin Bredyuk, Richard L Benkin, Matt, Rob Carle, Murray Godfrey, Jan, Gage Manthey, Theodore Patrick Shannon, Bruce G. Hearns, Stephanie Schindhelm, Paul Wilcox, Brad Durbin, Fogeltje, » SOURCES Alexander, Joseph. “Utmost Savagery: The Three Days of Tarawa” Naval Institute Press, 1995 Cook, Paul J. “Peninsula Lessons for Atoll Warfare: The U.S. Marine Corps and the Development of Naval Gunfire Doctrine” Athens Journal of History, Vol. 6, No. 4 (2020) Sherrod, Robert Lee. “Tarawa: The Story of a Battle” Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1944 Toll, Ian W. “The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944” W. W. Norton & Company, 2016 Wright, Derrick. “Pacific Victory: Tarawa to Okinawa 1943-1945” Sutton Publishing Limited, 2005 Wukovits, John. “One Square Mile of Hell: The Battle of Tarawa” NAL Caliber, 2006 »CREDITS Presented by: Jesse Alexander Written by: Mark Newton Director: Toni Steller Editing: Toni Steller Motion Design: Toni Steller Mixing, Mastering & Sound Design: http://above-zero.com Research by: Mark Newton, Florian Wittig Footage Research Support: The Archive Project https://thearchiveproject.com/ Fact checking: Florian Wittig Executive Producer: Florian Wittig Channel Design: Simon Buckmaster Contains licensed material by getty images, picture alliance, and Reuters Maps: MapTiler/OpenStreetMap Contributors & GEOlayers3 Music Library: Epidemic Sound All photos and film in our documentaries are authentic historical footage. We do not use generative AI to create new assets. However, we may use AI tools to upscale or clean up certain assets without distorting or compromising the original image. All rights reserved - Real Time History GmbH 2025