Transcriber’s note: Table of Contents added by Transcriberand placed into the Public Domain.
Contents
- Breaking the Outer Ring: Marine Landings in the Marshall Islands
- Planning the Attack
- Sidebar: Major General Holland M. Smith
- Sidebar: Major General Harry Schmidt
- Sidebar: The 4th Marine Division
- The Marine Attack: Roi-Namur
- Sidebar: Naval Support
- The Army Attack: Kwajalein
- The Final Attack: Eniwetok
- Sidebar: Brigadier General Thomas E. Watson
- Sidebar: The Deadly Spider Holes
- Sidebar: Secretary of The Navy Commendation
- Sources
- About the Author
- About the Series
- Transcriber’s Notes
Breaking the
Outer Ring:
Marine Landings in
the Marshall Islands
Marines in
World War II
Commemorative Series
By Captain John C. Chapin
U.S. Marine Corps Reserve (Ret)
A flamethrower, center,is among weapons carried by men of the22d Marines on Eniwetok.
Marineriflemen, under fire, leap from ajust-beached amphibian tractor in theJanuary 1944 landing. (Department ofDefense Photo [USMC 72411)]
Breaking the Outer Ring:
Marine Landings in the Marshall Islands
by Captain John C. Chapin, USMCR (Ret)
By the beginning of1944, United StatesMarine forces had alreadymade a dramaticstart on the conquestof areas overrun by the Japanese earlyin World War II. Successful Americanassaults in the Southwest Pacific,beginning with Guadalcanal in theSolomon Islands in Augu