Word: micronesia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coral Seedbed. Volume VII was to have been called "The Conquest of Micronesia"; Morison had to put the reconquest of the Aleutians in somewhere, and his present gazetteer title was the result. But once he washes his hands of the melted snow of the North, Morison launches into the great drive across the Central Pacific, beginning in the Gilberts. Here was the testing ground for all future amphibious operations, the sine qua non of Japan's defeat...
...hours Morison says convincingly: "Not one died in vain, nor did the 2,101 men wounded in action and who recovered, suffer in vain. Every man there, lost or maimed, saved at least ten of his countrymen as the Navy plunged deep into enemy waters and sailed irresistibly through Micronesia. All honor, then, to the fighting heart of the United States Marine. Let that small stretch of coral sand . . be remembered as terrible indeed, but glorious, and the seedbed for victory...
...Micronesia, the aircraft carrier came of age. Whereas the Americans were reduced to one flattop in the Solomons in late 1942, they took 16 to the Marshalls in early 1944. Two weeks after Kwajalein, Admiral Marc Mitscher's Task Force 58 smothered the great base at Truk with 568 planes, and sank 200,000 tons of shipping (biggest single day of the war). The Navy, abetted by U.S. industry, had found -in amphibious expertness and carrier proficiency-the twin weapons that would lead to victory...