Word: abemama
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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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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