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Sherman never saw combat again. For the rest of the war, he was the major planner in the greatest campaign the U.S. Navy ever fought. As Deputy Chief of Staff to Admiral Chester Nimitz, Sherman insisted after Tarawa that the tactically unimportant, heavily defended islands of Maloelap and Wotje should be bypassed, and Kwajalein attacked in one long, 250-mile jump. Said Kelly Turner: "Admiral Spruance and I were astounded." But Sherman was right-so right that the Navy and Kelly Turner's amphibious-force troops hopped on to grab Eniwetok. Thus the Navy's spectacular leapfrogging technique...
...This week the Navy department announced that Admiral Nimitz' Central Pacific forces had "established U.S. sovereignty" on ten more atolls strewn throughout the Marshall Islands. This gave the U.S. 14 Marshall atolls, including Kwajalein and Eniwetok, left the puzzled Japs only four: Jaluit, Mili, Wotje and Maloelap-the strongly-defended spots the Japs expected to be invaded in the first place...
...Target. Navy tacticians, who may have 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...
...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...
After a year's end lull, U.S. airmen in the Central Pacific resumed their daily bombardment of the Japs' Marshall Islands. The Army's Seventh Air Force sent heavy, medium and dive bombers over the runways and harbors of Mili. Jaluit, Wotje, Maloelap, Kwajalein (see cut). Navy Secretary Frank Knox all but forecast imminent invasion of the Marshalls: he said the bombings were "softening up" the islands, "putting the enemy on the defensive throughout that region...