Word: eniwetok
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...most impressive attacks were made in the Central Pacific, where frosty-eyed, newly promoted Admiral Raymond Spruance and his Central Pacific Fleet bored swiftly westward. Ten weeks elapsed between the first Central Pacific attack (Tarawa) and the second (Kwajalein). But only ten days after Kwajalein, U.S. troops landed on Eniwetok, while the Navy made its fierce raid on Truk...
Which Way to China? Presumably, the most important goal for Admiral Spruance and his strategic boss, Chester Nimitz, next along their route across the Central Pacific is the Philippines-a long 2,700 miles west of Eniwetok. Admiral Nimitz confirmed this impression last fortnight when he said: "I believe the Japs can be defeated only from bases in China." That can hardly be done until the Philippines are regained...
...birds had arrived in the morning. On nearby Kwajalein, Jaluit, Maloelap, little bandy-legged men squinted at the Pacific sky and ran for cover. Even over the island of Eniwetok, furthest west of all the Marshalls, the carrier-based planes arrived (see map, p. 19). The atolls shuddered under the impact of bomb upon bursting bomb and presently the screech and clump of shells added to the din and terror. Out of sight, over the horizon, surface ships had joined the carriers and were bringing the little men's islands under naval gunfire. Long awaited, long expected...