Word: eniwetok
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...beach of Eniwetok, one of the Marshall Islands, where U.S. troops fought and died a few months ago, now stands a Navy officers' mess, in front of it a stern notice: "There will be no drinking by anyone on the pier and all skylarking and needless pushing and pulling must be stopped...
...command's greatest need was a fleet anchorage in the western Pacific, fronting on the Philippine Sea. Saipan and Guam could serve only as staging points for a fleet; what was wanted was a landlocked basin such as Pearl Harbor, a blue lagoon like Kwajalein, Eniwetok or Majuro. A fine harbor could be had at Palau, a poorer one at Yap; a lagoon could be secured at one of several atolls in the western Carolines-far beyond the bypassed enemy strongholds of Truk and Ponape...
Probably it meant more administration work than field command for "Howlin' Mad" Smith. But he could take it. With Tarawa, Kwajalein, Eniwetok and Saipan behind him, he had commanded more amphibious assaults than any other U.S. general in World...
...landings in Eniwetok in the Navy's knifing attack across the Pacific. Then it swung far to the southwest, joined up With British forces in Trincomalee, Ceylon...
...over the Pacific-on Tarawa, on Eniwetok, on Midway, on Guadalcanal and Bougainville; at Noumea and Espiritu Santo and wherever our fleets may be-our soldiers, sailors and marines are now reading TIME each week while that same issue is still fresh on the newsstands here at home. For example...