Word: maloelap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...