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...months after arriving in Guadalcanal,Rubin was assigned to the atoll of Ulithi, a tinygroup of islands southwest of Guam, "which wasseized from the Japanese with tremendous loss oflife," he says...
...Ulithi became a major supply point for Alliedforces in the Pacific, and was designated a fleetanchorage, Rubin says. Every kind of ship, fromaircraft carriers to transports, came there toreceive new supplies, he says...
Clearly indicated was the lagoon of some remote atoll. Likely choices: Ulithi, in the western Carolines; Bikar, in the northern Marshalls, or Pokaakku (Taongi) between Bikar and Wake...
September: Peleliu fell in bloody battle. Ulithi was seized without resistance, became the fleet's advance base...
Commodore Worrall R. Carter, the bald, bony-faced commander of Service Suadron 10, had six types of naval repair ships at Ulithi (one for radio and radar alone). His flotilla included a drydock for destroyers, tenders to make emergency repairs on big ships like bomb-blasted Franklin, Ticonderoga and Intrpid. He claimed that Ulithi's water-taxi service, which ran between ships and shore was the world's largest - more than 400 small boats manned by more than 1,000 coxswains...