USS Makin Island (LHD 8) sits moored to the pier at U.S. Naval Base Guam for a regular scheduled port visit on May 14, 2023. US Navy Photo. When the Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group returns ...

USS Makin Island (LHD-8) leaves San Diego Harbor on Nov. 9, 2022 for an Indo-Pacific deployment. Photo via San Diego Web Cam used with permission.

The Makin Island group exercised with allied naval units from Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Timor-Leste during the deployment.

Makin-Island News: NASSCO Awarded USS Makin Island (LHD 8) Repair Job, Hawaii Regional Maintenance Center Completes Emergent Repair On USS Makin Island (LHD 8), Sunday, April 13, 2025.

Three ships, the USS Makin Island, the USS Anchorage, and the USS John P. Murtha, returned to a large crowd of family and friends Thursday. They're part of the USS Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group.

Uss-Makin-Island News: NASSCO Awarded USS Makin Island (LHD 8) Repair Job, Hawaii Regional Maintenance Center Completes Emergent Repair On USS Makin Island (LHD. Wednesday, April 9, 2025.

What follows are accounts of the raid on Makin Atoll by veterans of the U.S. Marine Corps Second Raider Battalion. Dean WintersWe landed about 100 to 150 yards from the main landing point.

When U.S. forces seized Makin Island in November 1943 after a grueling eleven-day battle, they learned a startling fact from the natives; the submarines had inadvertently left behind nine Raiders ...