The daily bombings of the bypassed Japanese atolls in the Eastern Marshall Islands continues. I’ve lost count of how many consecutive days of bombing we’ve seen. I always had the impression that we bypassed these places and just sort of forgot about them while the Japanese sat there and starved.
It looks like we didn’t exactly leave them alone to bask in the sun on a tropical beach.
This has been quite an education for me too. I had the impression there were two great carrier raids on Truk that neutralized the place. From these posts we see near daily bombing. There can’t be much left to bypass. Nimitz was making darn sure nothing threatening would be to his rear when he leaps to the Marianas.