Word: eniwetok
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...above was cut by fourscore planes, many of them pilotless, radio-controlled drones flown from Eniwetok or the carriers Shangri-La and Saidor. Worker planes kept these in their appointed rounds...
...Micronesia, each of the three great archipelagoes (Marshalls, Marianas and Carolines) has some atolls or mountain tops which the U.S. wants: Kwajalein and Eniwetok, Saipan and Tinian, Truk and Palau. The U.S. does not need the numberless neighboring islands, with tens of thousands of backward, simple natives, but has announced no policy for their trusteeship or control-because the military and civilian departments within the Government are fighting with each other. Final disposition of the islands must await the signing of a peace treaty-and the Russians are already warming up a propaganda campaign against "U.S. imperialism...
...from active service. Six will be manned with enough personnel to keep their facilities ready for use as soon as sufficient men and matériel could be shipped in. They are Kodiak and Attu in the Aleutians, Okinawa on the strategic northwestern frontier, the great sheltered anchorages of Eniwetok, Kwajalein and Truk. The others, buttoned up with only a fire and security watch: Dutch Harbor, Tinian, Majuro in the Marshalls, Samoa, the Australian mandate of Manus, Palau, and Puerto Princesa in the Philippines...
...great lagoons of Kwajalein and Eniwetok, the sheltered roadsteads of Palau and Truk, all wrested from Japan, would provide fleet anchorages. Tying the whole lacework together would be air bases on such famous "rocks" as Iwo, Marcus and Wake. (Conceding that the airplane is here to stay, the Navy was careful to emphasize that all bases would have built-in air stations...
...February: Kwajalein and Eniwetok were taken in the Central Pacific sweep...