Word: maloelap
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...Maloelap, 32 miles long, densely populated, has a naval anchorage, an airfield (on Taroa island) big enough for bombers...
...land-based Liberators operating from new, secret bases (possibly Funafuti in the Ellice Islands, which the Japanese bombed Nov. 17, or from Nanumea, which the Marines occupied Sept. 4) had pounded atolls in the Gilbert and Marshall groups. Carrier-based planes later joined the assault against Tarawa, Mili and Maloelap...