Word: ulithi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Navy purposes, Ulithi was three principal islands...
...Three Bs. But Ulithi's chief function was to supply the fleet with "bomb, beans and bullets." In the anchorage floated the "crockery fleet" - concrete barges storing the million items needed by a thousand ships. Fast supply ships and slow tankers shuttled from the U.S. to Ulithi, bringing oil, meat, screws, tires and flour to these warehouse barges which in turn unloaded their supplies into carriers, battleships, cruisers, destroyers and up to 700 amphibious vessels...
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...