Eniwetok Atoll, Battle of
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Eniwetok Atoll is located in the Marshall Islands in
the Pacific. Here, on February 17, 1944, five battalions
of U.S. marines and army infantry landed as
part of a mop-up mission following the main battles
of the Marshall Islands Campaign. The
three principal islands of the atoll, Engebi, Parry,
and Eniwetok, were held by a garrison of some
3,500 Japanese. The marines and army infantry
attacked and took each in succession while carrierbased
aircraft made a diversionary raid on Truk
Island to prevent the Japanese from launching aircraft
against the landings.
Possession of Eniwetok gave the Americans a
major naval anchorage and staging area for ongo-ing amphibious operations. It also further isolated
Japanese-held islands passed over in the American
"island-hopping" campaign throughout the Pacific.
Without a foothold in the atoll, there was no hope
of reinforcing any of these islands, including Wake
Island, which the Japanese had taken at the start
of the war.
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