Word: kwajaleins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thicker than usual around TIME'S offices last week. Army & Navy Editor Perry Githens came back from 45 days on a baby flattop. Foreign News Editor Fill Calhoun returned from the Mediterranean theater where he went last August. Bill Chickering got back from the landings on Bougainville and Kwajalein. And Bureau Chief Bill Fisher came home from the Far East for the first time since...
...manner of achievement was more startling than the figures. This time the surprise of the Kwajalein invasion and the Truk carrier blow was missing. The Japs detected Mitscher's force many hours away, sent wave after wave of planes against it. During the night, antiaircraft gunners aboard the carriers and their protective ships knocked down fourteen. Hellcats shot down five others which attacked the force during the morning. The fact that no U.S. ship was sunk (and none admitted to be damaged) provided the best vindication of the carrier's ability to meet land-based planes. Superior numbers...
This pattern, arrived at on Tarawa, improved on Kwajalein, was last week perfected on Eniwetok, a roughly circular atoll 379 miles northwest of Kwajalein. Through Eniwetok the Japs had been staging their airplane supply to the Marshalls...
Harry Hill's ground forces were fewer than had been used either on Tarawa or Kwajalein-less than two regiments...
Wrote U.P. Correspondent Richard Johnston for the combined press: "From beach to beach, Engebi was a scene of almost incredible destruction . . . surpassing what was dealt to Kwajalein. Not a single building was left standing by our bombardment. Even the skeleton structures had been hammered down into chaotic wreckage." Marine losses were "light...