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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...
Kwajalein, even more than the Gilberts, had shown the capabilities of the now mighty Pacific Fleet. Navy officers had once worried about mooring warships in Pearl Harbor. In a bold and disdainful gesture last week the Navy moored its ships inside Kwajalein's landlocked lagoon, 375 miles from Jap-held Kusaie and less than half that distance from bases which the Japs still occupy in the Marshalls group. The Navy, with its new carrier strength and antiaircraft fire (see p. 65), was no longer nervous about land-based aircraft...
Henry, aboard his destroyer in the same engagement, stood in to Tarawa's lagoon firing at almost point-blank range on Jap shore batteries. Direct hits on his ship did not discourage Henry, who blazed away with even more enthusiasm...
...Mili, 23 miles long, a nest of 100 islets, has a strongly garrisoned airfield, a lagoon that provides good anchorage for surface vessels...
...Kwajalein, world's largest atoll, an 80-mile string of islets, is the hub of the Marshall fortifications. It has a major airfield (on Roi Island), a seaplane anchorage, submarine facilities. In its tremendous lagoon, raiding U.S. planes (TIME, Dec. 20), have caught cruisers, carriers, seagoing merchantmen and many varieties of inter-island craft...