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...Preparation. The landings had been well prepared. For seven straight days, land-based Liberators operating from new, secret bases (possibly Funafuti in the Ellice Islands, which the Japanese bombed Nov. 17, or from Nanumea, which the Marines occupied Sept. 4) had pounded atolls in the Gilbert and Marshall groups. Carrier-based planes later joined the assault against Tarawa, Mili and Maloelap...
...Solomons area, the Thirteenth Air Force sent 250 medium and heavy bombers against Bougainville in one day. The Japanese, with recent reinforcements flown in from other bases, made three attempts at retaliation: to minor raids on Guadalcanal, one minor raid on Funafuti. Spokesmen asserted that air patrols had made it impossible for any sizable Jap naval force to remain south of Rabaul for more than 24 hours...
Occupation of islands in the central Pacific has already started. U.S. Marines now hold Funafuti, the largest island in the small Ellice group, which lies 1,200 miles east of Guadalcanal. General Hale's bombers may have used Funafuti as an intermediate base last week...
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