Word: nanumea
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...Preparation. The landings had been well prepared. For seven straight days, 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...
...Gilberts. Marines sneaked into Nanumea, which lies only 500 miles southwest of Japan's Gilbert Islands bases. Their landing was unopposed, put U.S. troops close in under the flank of Japan's long eastern sea frontier...
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