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Eniwetok

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Eniwetok, Marshall Islands: see Enewetak Enewetak, Enewetok, or Eniwetok , circular atoll, central Pacific, one of the Ralik Chain in the Marshall Islands. Enewetak is c.50 mi (80 km) in circumference and comprises about 40 islets surrounding a large lagoon.
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Eniwetok
an atoll in the W Pacific Ocean, in the NW Marshall Islands: taken by the US from Japan in 1944; became a naval base and later a testing ground for atomic weapons. Pop.: 715 (latest est.)


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1952: At Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific, the USA detonated the first hydrogen bomb.
Happenend this day by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
Following Tarawa, Hammel turns to The Marshall Islands, just north and west of the Gilberts where the Japanese had fortified Kwajalein and Eniwetok Atolls and built air bases.
Tarawa and the Marshalls U.S. Marines in World War II: A Pictorial ... by Larsen, Richard N. / Reviewer's Bookwatch
He referred to Operation Hardtack, the current series of tests at Eniwetok and Johnson Island as giving extremely vital information to the defense of the United States.
THE PAST 100 YEARS by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
 
 
 
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