During the WWII, the Marshall Islands served as the eastern defensive perimeter for the Japanese military forces in the Central Pacific. After taking control of the Marshalls from Germany in 1914, the Japanese steadily increased their military presence here and beginning in the late 1930s with the anticipation of war, they began to heavily fortify the atolls of Kwajalein, Wotje, Maloelap, Jaluit and later Mili and Enewetak. These heavy fortifications were intended to help launch air attacks on certain targets (such as Hawaii, Wake Island, Kiribati and Johnston Atoll) and to serve as defense posts for Japan’s more westerly strongholds.

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The first attack on Japanese forces in the Marshalls by the US occurred in the early morning hours of February 1, 1942. The ensuing three years of fighting would prove to be some of the bloodiest in the whole of the Pacific. 

When the smoke cleared, what remained was an extravagant collection of war wrecks and relics unrivaled elsewhere in the Pacific. The following is an approximate inventory of intact land-based relics in the Marshalls. These include air raid shelters, barracks, hospitals, Storage tanks, power plants, tanks, trucks, trains, towers, antiaircraft guns, coastal defense guns, multi purpose guns, Pillboxes, walls, trenches, air control center, various bombers and fighters, runways, hangars and much more.

For information on Battlefield tours, contact OCIT RMI Tourism Office +692-625-4624.

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• 二戰期間，馬紹爾群島作為日本在中太平洋東部戰線的重要防線，自1914年從德國手中接管後。，日本便從20世紀30年代末開始在此大力加強軍事存在，尤其是在瓜加林、沃特傑、馬洛埃拉普、賈盧伊特、米利及埃納韋塔克環礁。這些重點防禦工事旨在協助發動針對特定目標的遠程空襲任務，同時也保護日本西部的要塞。
   

• 1942年2月1日清晨，美國對駐紮在馬紹爾群島的日軍發動了首次攻擊，雙方隨後發生了持續三年的戰火交鋒。當戰爭終於平息，留下的是太平洋地區獨一無二的戰爭遺跡群：防空洞、兵營、醫院、儲存罐、發電廠、坦克、卡車、火車、塔樓、高射炮、海岸防禦炮、多功能炮、碉堡、牆壁、戰壕、空中控制中心、各式轟炸機和戰鬥機、跑道、機庫等等。
   

• 馬紹爾群島不僅是衝浪愛好者的天堂，也是歷史愛好者探索二戰遺跡的理想之地。如果您有興趣深入了解這片歷史豐富的島嶼，以及參觀這些保存完好的戰時遺跡，請聯繫馬紹爾群島旅遊辦公室，或致電 +692-625-4624，了解更多關於旅遊資訊。