Video: 'WW2: U.S. Marines Take Eniwetok (1944)'

(Thursday, February 17, 1944; Part of World War II, Pacific War) — Following the American success in the Battle of Kwajalein to the southeast, the Battle of Eniwetok began today on Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Capture of Eniwetok would provide an airfield and harbor to support Allied attacks on the Mariana Islands to the northwest.