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...went home after that for a breather, met and married pretty, 21-year-old Ada North. But he was soon back in the South Pacific, fighting in Abemama and Majuro, and in the Marshall Islands, where he was wounded by a Jap hand grenade...
...Seventh tangled with 60 Zeros-almost double the heaviest opposition previously encountered over the Marshalls. Clearly the Japs were getting stronger. Almost every night, and once five times in a single night, Jap planes droned over U.S. positions on Makin, Tarawa and Abemama in the Gilberts. The U.S. Navy said that the enemy's numbers were small, his blows negligible. But the raids gave a warning: unlike the Gilberts, where there had been scant air resistance, the Marshalls would be defended in the air, over the seas, and on the ground...
Pacific. The Navy threw its biggest offensive force of the war into attacks on Makin, Tarawa and Abemama atolls in the Central Pacific...
...Tarawa, Makin and Abemama, tiny pin points of coral and sand, Admiral Spruance's Marines and soldiers fought Japs for whom there was no line of retreat. But ahead of the Americans there was a pregnant line of advance-to the Marshalls, to the Japs' great naval-and-air center at Truk...
...Abemama, a number of small islands around a lagoon, could be developed into an emergency fighter airdrome. Reports from Honolulu suggested that fighting on the 12-by-5-mile atoll, 80 miles southeast of Tarawa, was light...
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