Word: truk
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...thunder at Truk echoed from Tokyo. In a move without precedent, Japan's rulers summarily sacked the chiefs of the Army and Navy General Staffs, openly admitted the loss of two cruisers, three destroyers, 13 transports, 120 planes...
Even to Japan's befuddled man-in-the-street it was plain: the punishment did not fit the crime. Seemingly the two chief strategists were penalized less for Truk than for the bankruptcy of their strategy of an impenetrable sea perimeter...
...Crisis. In both cases able minds have been replaced by less able. To Tojo the bitter pill of Truk was sugared by his triumph over his old rival Sugiyama. To Sugiyama and Nagano the bitter pill was sugared with appointment as "highest military advisers to His Majesty...
...Army and Navy could no longer gloss over or glorify defeats at Attu, Kiska, the Solomons, Tarawa, Kwajalein and Truk. Suddenly they had emerged as stages in a U.S. strategical plan for which Japan had as yet found no defensive answer. Even the man-in-the-street now knew: the crisis in the Pacific approached...
...where frosty-eyed, newly promoted Admiral Raymond Spruance and his Central Pacific Fleet bored swiftly westward. Ten weeks elapsed between the first Central Pacific attack (Tarawa) and the second (Kwajalein). But only ten days after Kwajalein, U.S. troops landed on Eniwetok, while the Navy made its fierce raid on Truk...