Units of one of the United States Pacific fleets riding at anchor in the waters of a recently-cap-tured atoll lagoon in the Marshall Islands while the latest big advance to Saipan Island was being prepared. In the lagoon were no fewer than nine aircraft-carriers, 12 battleships, and a large number of cruisers, destroyers, and supply ships, representing still only part of the Central Pacific task force that entered the Marshalls with the hope of engaging the Japanese Navy.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 227, 22 June 1944, Page 5
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78Units of one of the United States Pacific fleets riding at anchor in the waters of a recently-captured atoll lagoon in the Marshall Islands while the latest big advance to Saipan Island was being prepared. In the lagoon were no fewer than nine aircraft-carriers, 12 battleships, and a large number of cruisers, destroyers, and supply ships, representing still only part of the Central Pacific task force that entered the Marshalls with the hope of engaging the Japanese Navy. Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 227, 22 June 1944, Page 5
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