Marshall Islands Campaign

Maps

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  Operation Catchpole - Seizure of Eniwetok
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  Kwajalein Atoll - NASA NLT Landsat 7
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  Kwajalein Atoll
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  Kwajalein island map
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  Kwajalein north
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  Kwajalein roi namur landings

Eniwetok

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  Eniwetok landing. US soldiers on the beach awaiting orders to attack
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  Troops pinned down by enemy fire
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  Marines of Major Clair W. Shisler, USMC, unit of the 22nd Regiment await the work to attack. The fourth Marine down the line is carrying a flamethrower used to dig out Japanese holed up in dugouts on Eniwetok island
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  Casualties on this island were small, one killed and one wounded. This is the first wave, in fact the only wave to go ashore on this island
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  Closing in. Marine line of riflemen with bayonets on their weapons, crawls forward foot by foot as they clean up Eniwetok atoll in the final minutes of the battle. February 23, 1944
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  Fightings at Eniwetok
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  Wounded soldier at the beach of Eniwetok
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  Back to a Coast Guard assault transport comes this Marine after two days and nights of Hell on the beach of Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands. His face is grimey with coral dust but the light of battle stays in his eyes. February 1944
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  Communications men string telephone wire on an Enewetok tree

Kwajalein

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  US-Landings at Kwajalein, 31. Januar 1944
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  Troops landing on Kwajalein
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  Assault troops await the signal to move inland on Kwajalein
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  Men of the 7th Division, US Army move a gun up to the front line of Kwajalein
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  Men of the 7th Division using flame throwers to smoke out Japs from a block house on Kwajalein Island
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  Private First Class N. E. Carling stands beside the medium tank "Killer" on which is mounted a dead Japanese light tank
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  Kwajalein-Base 1944

Miscellaneous islands

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  Advanced Marine signal unit sets up a hasty command post in the ruins of a shattered Japanese building on Namur
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  Bomb dump cut amid wrecked trees and Japanese pillboxes after the Marshall islands occupation by US forces