Word: kwajaleins
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...extraordinarily brilliant seizure of Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshalls came as great good news to Americans, brooding ever since Tarawa over the high casualties there...
...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...
...Kwajalein lies in the midst of the western Ralik (Sunset) group of the Marshalls like a string of beads carelessly cast upon a table. The deep lagoon surrounded by this string is 66 miles long, ten miles wide, big enough to hold all the world's shipping. The atoll itself consists of 92 bits of sand-covered coral, some big enough to be called islands...
...birds had arrived in the morning. On nearby Kwajalein, Jaluit, Maloelap, little bandy-legged men squinted at the Pacific sky and ran for cover. Even over the island of Eniwetok, furthest west of all the Marshalls, the carrier-based planes arrived (see map, p. 19). The atolls shuddered under the impact of bomb upon bursting bomb and presently the screech and clump of shells added to the din and terror. Out of sight, over the horizon, surface ships had joined the carriers and were bringing the little men's islands under naval gunfire. Long awaited, long expected...
...Marshalls themselves Army and Navy bombers continued to pound, as they had for two months-bombing and strafing Wotje, Maleolap, Jaluit, Mili and Kwajalein, attacking shipping, airfields, fuel and ammunition dumps in the same pattern of strategic bombing which had preceded the assault on the Gilberts...