Kwajalein
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- proper noun
- /kwɑːdʒəˈleɪn/
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Kwajalein
- Rochefort just decoded a transmission from Kwajalein to Yamamoto's headquarters:
- Kwajalein Atoll
- Kwajalein Island
Examples
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They were taken to the island of kwajalein, where we maintain a naval establishment, and there placed under continuous and competent medical supervision.
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Kwajalein, which was a joint landing, was led by four Army-only landings on occupied islands around it.
Blog text (18) -
Carol, he was in my unit in Kwajalein.
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Location: Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands.
Academic text (1996) -
They would then track the missile's flight path toward Kwajalein Island in the Marshall Islands.
Blog text (20) -
Today, a full month after the event, the medical staff on kwajalein have advised us that they anticipate no illness, barring, of course, diseases which may be hereafter contracted.
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Notices of the deployment of teams to Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Kwajalein Island, Panama, and South Korea appear regularized.
Academic text (2002) -
What was omitted was the invasion of Tarawa, the first Japanese-held island before the war, and also the retaking of the Marshall Islands and Kwajalein.
Blog text (11) -
U.S. troops landed at Kwajalein Atoll during World War II to establish a crucial military base.
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The battle of Kwajalein was one of the key confrontations in the Pacific theater during the war.
Synonyms
A ring of small coral islands in the western Marshall Islands that hosts a major United States military base
Compounds
A battle in January 1944 when American forces captured a Japanese island in the Pacific
A ring of small coral islands in the western Marshall Islands that hosts a major United States military base
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word Kwajalein comes from the Marshallese language and is the local name for this atoll. So when you hear Kwajalein, think 'ring-shaped island group with a big central lagoon' in the Marshall Islands, which is why the name refers to that place today.