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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.
(NOTE: Since 1974, the more widely accepted spelling of the atoll is Enewetak.) Here, on the 70th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Eniwetok, LIFE.com presents photographs by George Strock â a number of which were never published in LIFE â made in the thick of the struggle for the atoll.