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Word: palau (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last as reinforcements began to arrive from a nation which had tardily remembered its Navy. She fought at Saipan and Tinian. She was a picket ship. She was fire support. She was mobile 5-in. artillery steaming inshore against Jap pillboxes. She operated at Guam and later at Palau and later with Halsey in the second Battle of the Philippines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: Old Pat | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

...Truk, Japan's Pacific naval bastion, and the heavily fortified Palau Islands gave up. So did Japanese garrisons on Pagan and Rota in the Marianas. The catch was estimated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: A Bubble Bursts | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

...Santa Fe was at Wake Island, Bougainville, Tarawa, Kwajalein, Truk, Palau, Yap, Hollandia, Wakde, Samar, Ponape, Pagan, Guam, the Philippines, Okinawa, Formosa. She sank a destroyer in the Bonins last August, and got four cargo ships off Mindanao, 2,000 miles to the southwest, in September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Santa Fe | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

...done the enemy, it was far from being the most costly. At Tarawa, where an estimated 5,000 Japs died or were captured, 1,000 Americans died and 2,000 were wounded-an overall casualty ratio of 5-to-3. On Saipan the ratio was only 7-to-4; Palau, less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: End on Okinawa | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

Westward from Hawaii lie the islands which the Japanese had 30 years to prepare for defense: Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Majuro and Palau. Those glittering prizes of yesteryear have their garrisons, their installations and their functions, but they are no longer in the forefront of the new Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE PACIFIC REVISITED | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

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