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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.
But for the American troops who landed on tiny Engebi Island in the Eniwetok Atoll in February 1944, after air strikes and naval gunfire had poured hundred of tons of ordnance on to the beaches, the minor engagement held all the violence and danger of a far larger, more âhistoricâ clash.