On Aug. 17, 1942, a party of 211 United States Marines landed on the Japanese-occupied Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Islands. Their objectives, multiple: destroy local installations, take two or more ...
The ships of the Makin Island Ready Group exercise off Indonesia in December. Navy photo The Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group with the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit returned to San Diego this week ...
WASHINGTON — A U.S. Marine Corps unit spent seven months in the Indo-Pacific testing the service’s warfighting modernization effort, offering a glimpse at what future operations in the region might ...
SAN DIEGO — Hundreds of U.S. Navy Sailors and U.S. Marines returned home to San Diego after a seven-month deployment. Three ships, the USS Makin Island, the USS Anchorage, and the USS John P. Murtha, ...
A Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey flies by the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in the South China Sea. Navy photo The San Diego-based Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group is exercising with the nuclear-powered ...
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