Word: kwajaleins
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Roger. On Kwajalein, as Pilot Hooten flew in, Pilot Holler flew...
...these bases were far from finished when Japan surrendered. Except in Hawaii, there had been little permanent construction, in iron and concrete, during the war. Kwajalein and Saipan, Iwo and Okinawa had been filled first with tents, then with temporary buildings such as Quonset huts. The life expectancy of these structures, under tropic rains and salt spray, is scarcely more than two years. If the bases were to be any good a few years hence, the corrugated iron must be replaced with reinforced concrete. At Wake, Marcus and Truk, where U.S. forces did not land until after the surrender...
...marines once buried in the Russells, Espiritu Santo and Tulagi. Men who died as prisoners in scattered, Jap-held islets of the Marshalls, soldiers who fell at Makin, marines who died to take Roi and Namur will be moved to the cemetery on Ennylabegan, in the south of Kwajalein Atoll...
...worth of equipment (including engines for one-third of the Liberty ship fleet); 2) expanded to a 55-acre plant employing at its war peak 7,500 workers. Hendy's most spectacular achievement: when the Navy needed 252 rocket launchers in a hurry for the invasion of Kwajalein, Hendy produced them in 176 hours...
...great lagoons of Kwajalein and Eniwetok, the sheltered roadsteads of Palau and Truk, all wrested from Japan, would provide fleet anchorages. Tying the whole lacework together would be air bases on such famous "rocks" as Iwo, Marcus and Wake. (Conceding that the airplane is here to stay, the Navy was careful to emphasize that all bases would have built-in air stations...