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

(Wednesday, February 23, 1944; Part of World War II, Pacific War) — U.S. forces secured Eniwetok Atoll today from the Japanese, with 262 Americans killed in 7 days of fighting. The victory provided a forward base for the United States Navy for its later operations, including Allied attacks on the Mariana Islands to the northwest.