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  • Because water lies only four feet below the surface of the Tarawa atoll, the Japanese could not build underground defenses.†   (source)
  • Outside our window, there was now a brown lake dotted with atolls of red mud.†   (source)
  • From down the atoll, the explosions were coming in rapid succession, each one louder and closer.   (source)
    atoll = island (that is made of a coral reef)
  • For three days, the Japanese bombed and strafed the atoll.   (source)
  • In the atoll lagoon, on a hunk of coral, one of the POWs had scraped a message: 98 US P.W. 5-10-43.   (source)
  • A freighter was coming to transport them to another atoll.   (source)
  • Then, from the north end of the atoll, came a BOOM!   (source)
  • The food on the atoll had apparently agreed with the castaways, but not the food on the freighter.   (source)
  • Several large infernos, spewing black smoke, were consuming the atoll's oil tanks.   (source)
  • They were on an atoll in the Marshall Islands.   (source)
  • Among the men of Louie's squadron, there was a rumor circulating about the atoll of Kwajalein, in the Marshall Islands, a Japanese territory.   (source)
  • When they landed there eight hours later, they were greeted with a case of Budweiser and very big news--The Japanese had built a base on Wake Atoll.   (source)
  • The bombers were supposed to approach the atoll in formation, but with clouds around and the lights off, the pilots couldn't find their flightmates.   (source)
  • They left just before midnight, refueled on Canton, and flew to Funafuti, the tiny atoll from which they would launch their attack.   (source)
  • After a three-week journey, including a stopover at Truk Atoll, the ship docked at Yokohama, on the eastern coast of Japan's central island, Honshu.   (source)
  • They knew, probably from Louie's conversation with the officers on the first atoll, that it was a B-24.   (source)
  • One man ran right off the end of the atoll, splashing into the ocean even though he didn't know how to swim.   (source)
  • As his copilot called out speed and altitude figures, Matheny pushed his plane toward a string of buildings on Peacock Point, the atoll's southern tip.   (source)
  • He and the remains of the crew stopped at Canton, then flew on to Palmyra Atoll, where Louie took a hot shower and watched They Died with Their Boots On at the base theater.   (source)
  • A few weeks after Louie arrived at Ofuna, an American carrier force began bombing and shelling Wake Atoll, where the Americans captured during the Japanese invasion were still being held as slaves.   (source)
  • Coming upon a public bath full of civilians, Marvin jumped right in with them, scrubbing himself clean for the first time since his last shower on Wake Atoll in December 1941.   (source)
  • AS JAPANESE PLANES DOVE OVER OAHU, MORE THAN TWO thousand miles to the west, a few marines were sitting in a mess tent on Wake Atoll, having breakfast.   (source)
  • In Naoetsu's little POW insurgency, perhaps the most insidious feat was pulled off by Louie's friend Ken Marvin, a marine who'd been captured at Wake Atoll.   (source)
  • The bombs moved down the atoll.   (source)
  • Finally, the atoll fell silent.   (source)
  • One moment he'd been sleeping, and the next, the atoll was rocking with explosions, a siren was howling, and people were sprinting by, dragging patients onto stretchers and rushing them out.   (source)
  • Realizing that the white church would stand out brilliantly on the dark atoll, a marine named Fonnie Black Ladd ran in and yelled at the natives to get out.   (source)
  • Between them, the two island groups had dozens of atolls and islands, so there was a good likelihood that there were places unoccupied by the Japanese.   (source)
    atolls = islands (that are made of circular coral reefs)
  • He wondered how much range the Atoll had.†   (source)
  • The pilot of Kingfisher 3, Lieutenant Shavrov, reached down to arm his four Atolls.†   (source)
  • Spade Flight, you have four Atolls after you," the voice of the Hawkeye's controller said.†   (source)
  • He was reminded for a moment of Tarawa atoll and its seawall and the palms that lay in rows on their side, knocked down by the compression from the naval guns.†   (source)
  • Chuckie studied his radar scope and recomputed the aircraft's path over a couple of thousand miles of sea curve and mango atoll.†   (source)
  • It was a battle on the tiny atoll of Tarawa in the Central Pacific that would foreshadow the fate of Mike, Harlon, Franklin, Ira, Rene, Doc, and all the Marines fighting America's War.†   (source)
  • These men honestly believed…the heavily barricaded enemy atolls of the Central Pacific would prove to be the burial ground of any American force foolish enough to 'leap off the deep end.'†   (source)
  • "In case you didn't notice, he did get within a mile of Atoll range, and we don't have authorization to shoot at him until he flips one at us—which might wreck our day," the colonel grumped.†   (source)
  • He'd blaze by her a few times, letting the flight crew see his Atolls, and— It took Shavrov a moment to realize that he had a wingman.†   (source)
  • I can think of a few right here on the Chesapeake, and if we could get her round the Horn, there's a million little atolls we could use, and they all belong to us."†   (source)
  • ON July 1, 1946, before the first anniversary of the bombing, the United States had tested an atomic bomb at the Bikini Atoll.†   (source)
  • ON March 1, 1954, the Lucky Dragon No. 5 was showered with radioactive fallout from an American test at Bikini Atoll.†   (source)
  • In some places, they form atolls, a circular ring surrounding a lagoon or small inner lake that gaps place in contact with the sea.†   (source)
  • This, at least, is the theory of Mr. Charles Darwin, who thus explains the formation of atolls—a theory superior, in my view, to the one that says these madreporic edifices sit on the summits of mountains or volcanoes submerged a few feet below sea level.†   (source)
  • …vegetation: its infallibility as paradigm and paragon: its metamorphoses as vapour, mist, cloud, rain, sleet, snow, hail: its strength in rigid hydrants: its variety of forms in loughs and bays and gulfs and bights and guts and lagoons and atolls and archipelagos and sounds and fjords and minches and tidal estuaries and arms of sea: its solidity in glaciers, icebergs, icefloes: its docility in working hydraulic millwheels, turbines, dynamos, electric power stations, bleachworks,…†   (source)
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