Word: jaluit
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...Japanese fishing boat reached the couple. They were taken aboard and later transferred either to the Japanese seaplane tender Kamoi or to the survey ship Koshu, which was known to be in the region. From his talks with natives, Goerner concludes that the flyers were taken first to Jaluit, then Kwajalein, and finally to Saipan, Japan's military headquarters in the Pacific; a number of Saipanese say that they saw a man and a woman who resembled Noonan and Earhart. Goerner quotes native sources as saying that Earhart probably died of dysentery and that Noonan was beheaded...
...Marine pilots flying Corsairs still drew heavy antiaircraft fire from Jaluit, one of the Marshall atolls bypassed and hopelessly isolated in last February's capture of Kwajalein-although Jaluit is one of the most thoroughly bombed spots on earth...
...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...
Amelia Earhart, lost in the Pacific in July, 1937, rose dubiously in the words of a Marshall Islands native: "A Jap trader named Ajima told me that an American woman flyer came down between Jaluit and Ailinglapalap Atolls. She was picked up by a Jap fishing boat [and] taken back to Japan...
...Target. Navy tacticians, who may have revised their first plans after the Gilberts attack, did not choose to invade the strong bases nearest Pearl Harbor (Wotje, Maloelap), nor those nearest the Gilberts (Jaluit, Mili) on the south. Instead they slapped around the enemy's end and pounced into his backfield, all the way to Kwajalein, largest atoll of them all (and reportedly the chief supply station for the Marshalls group...