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Eniwetok Atoll, the target assigned to Admiral Hill's task group, lies 330 nautical miles northwest of Kwajalein.8 It is a typical Central Pacific coral atoll with a circular reef surrounding a lagoon, which at its widest point is seventeen miles from east to west and twenty-one miles from north to south.
Battle of Eniwetok: Rare and Classic Photos From the Pacific in WWII. LIFE.com presents photos -- many of which were never published in LIFE magazine -- made in the thick of the fighting for the tiny South Pacific atoll. If judged by the measure of the Second World Warâs epic clashes and campaigns â Stalingrad, the Battle of the Bulge, Guadalcanal, Anzio â the Battle of Eniwetok was a relatively minor engagement.