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...From Washington the Navy announced that two submarines had returned to report sinking 13 more Jap merchantmen. ^ But the 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...
...make the final decisions, probably had not decided how to get to the Philippines. But the final decision was not yet pressing: there was far to go. > Nimitz and his task forces could seize or by-pass more islands on their westward march. MacArthur could pound away at Jap pockets of resistance while his land troops went on retaking New Guinea...
...fixed in hundreds of U.S. airmen's bombsights. Carrier planes -Avengers and Dauntless dive-bombers -hurtled across the green islands which lie within Truk's barrier coral reef, screamed down onto the shipping moored inside the 40-mile-wide lagoon. Snub-nosed Hellcats swirled into fights with Jap defenders, shot them from the air, caught plenty more ignominiously on the ground. After the first few hours there was no longer any doubt: the enemy had been caught napping...
...bombers made the most of it. They sank 19 Jap ships: two light cruisers, three destroyers, one ammunition ship, one seaplane tender, two oilers, two gunboats, eight cargo ships. Apparently the two carriers had pulled out. Only losses reported by the Navy: 17 planes. One ship was "moderately damaged...
...formula for Central Pacific warfare was becoming standardized: i) Bomb the important installations on an atoll heavily while 2) neutralizing other Jap bases within 500 miles by knocking out their airfields, 3) bring up the heavy warships and pound the atoll for several days, 4) land troops with artillery on smaller islands adjoining the important installations, 5) throw naval gunfire, bombs, artillery shells on the installations until they are pulverized, 6) send in the foot soldiers to kill whatever Japs still wait for death in the ruins...