Word: palau
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...great lagoons of Kwajalein and Eniwetok, the sheltered roadsteads of Palau and Truk, all wrested from Japan, would provide fleet anchorages. Tying the whole lacework together would be air bases on such famous "rocks" as Iwo, Marcus and Wake. (Conceding that the airplane is here to stay, the Navy was careful to emphasize that all bases would have built-in air stations...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...