Word: eniwetok
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...Marines of the battle-hardened Amphibious V Corps (Tarawa, Kwajalein, Eniwetok) took time out to grin. On a bulletin board was a notice from one of the outfit's censors, addressed to a private.The message...
...This week the Navy department announced that Admiral Nimitz' Central Pacific forces had "established U.S. sovereignty" on ten more atolls strewn throughout the Marshall Islands. This gave the U.S. 14 Marshall atolls, including Kwajalein and Eniwetok, left the puzzled Japs only four: Jaluit, Mili, Wotje and Maloelap-the strongly-defended spots the Japs expected to be invaded in the first place...
...During the invasion of Eniwetok, a U.S. destroyer, covering the landing, shelled three American landing craft (during bad weather when both vessels were slightly off their assigned positions). Lost: 13 dead, 45 wounded...
...Matthias Islands are flat, well suited for fighter and bomber strips. They lie only 625 miles from Truk. Admiral Nimitz' forces at Eniwetok are 775 miles from Truk. Now another junction appeared in the offing...
Even before they had time to sleep or wipe the sweat, dirt and blood off their faces, a group of U.S. Marines was whisked straight from the fight on Eniwetok to somebody's idea of heaven: a movie. Dog-tired, they were glad enough to flop down anywhere. Suddenly on the wrinkled screen, smiling winsomely, glowed the features of Frank Sinatra. And soft against the battle-battered Marine eardrums throbbed Frank's velvet protestations of his love for them. There was a short, amazed, ecstatic silence; then the Marines yawped, groaned and moaned, "Frankie, Oh Frankie, Oh Frankie...