Enewetak Atoll

Encountering the Pacific front

They had really just cleaned that island off with the big guns."

“We found that most of the palm trees had been cut off where the Navy had, with their big guns, had just blown everything on the island down. And I didn't see any live Japanese except, we saw a few dead ones. You could, every now and then, you could run into a boot or something with a leg in it. But they had really just cleaned that island off with the big guns.”

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