Gilbert Islands
Butaritari Island (Makin Atoll)
ConfirmedHiddenApproximate area
- On screen
- Makin Atoll – Semper Fi
- Where
- Butaritari, Gilbert Islands, Kiribati
- Time & access
- Reached by domestic flights from Tarawa; ask locally before visiting wartime sites.
In the game
‘Semper Fi’ opens the game with a night raid on a Japanese camp on Makin.
History in brief
US Marine Raiders landed on Butaritari in August 1942, and US Army troops took the atoll in the larger Battle of Makin in November 1943.
The place today
An inhabited island of villages and coconut groves, with wartime remains among them.
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