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This week Mili Atoll in the southeastern Marshalls, less than 100 miles southeast of U.S. positions on Majuro, was plastered by carrier-based bombers, shelled by battleships. It was the first time the battleships had unlimbered their guns since Eniwetok last month...
Killed in Action. Staff Sergeant John Aloysius Bushemi, 26, probably the best-known noncom in the Pacific area (one of Yank's finest cameramen), Iowa-born buddy of Sergeant Marion Hargrove (See Here, Private Hargrove); on the Eniwetok beachhead...
This pattern, arrived at on Tarawa, improved on Kwajalein, was last week perfected on Eniwetok, a roughly circular atoll 379 miles northwest of Kwajalein. Through Eniwetok the Japs had been staging their airplane supply to the Marshalls...
...supervise the Eniwetok amphibious operation Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner sent one of his most trusted deputies, handsome, grey Rear Admiral Harry Wilbur Hill, who also had charge of the Tarawa phase of the Gilberts operation...
Against the 1,500 by 2,000 yd. triangular island of Engebi, Harry Hill sent the 22nd Marines, commanded by Colonel John T. Walker of Texas. Against cigar-shaped Eniwetok he sent men of the 106th Infantry (Brooklyn National Guard troops) of Colonel Russell G. Ayers, plus perhaps one battalion of Marines...