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    9°58′N 139°40′E / 9.97°N 139.67°E / 9.97; 139.67 Ulithi Ulithi (Yapese: Wulthiy, Yulthiy, or Wugöy; pronounced roughly as YOU-li-thee[needs IPA]) is...
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    Ulithi 9°58′N 139°40′E / 9.97°N 139.67°E / 9.97; 139.67 Naval Base Ulithi was a major United States Navy base at the Ulithi Atoll in the Caroline Islands...
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    October, Halsey had detached two of his carrier groups to the fleet base at Ulithi to take on provisions and rearm. When Darter's contact report came in, Halsey...
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    Ulithi Civil Airfield (IATA: ULI, FAA LID: TT02) is a public airport serving the island of Falalop, located in the Ulithi Atoll in the Caroline Islands...
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  • Ulithian is the language spoken on Ulithi Atoll and neighboring islands. Ulithian is one of the six official languages of the Federated States of Micronesia...
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    Missionary Aviation makes periodic trips to the outer island airfields of Ulithi Atoll and Fais Island. Woleai airfield is currently closed for repairs....
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    Falalop (Ulithian: Fl'aalop) is an island in the Ulithi Atoll in the western Pacific Ocean, approximately 191 km (103 nmi) east of Yap. It is part of the...
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    flagship. On 14 December, Missouri departed San Francisco and sailed for Ulithi in the Caroline Islands, where she joined the rest of the fleet on 13 January...
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    tributes would travel from the east to the west from as far Namonuito to Ulithi and finally to Yap. The tributes took the form of various items such as...
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    sailed for Ulithi. During one part of that period, Enterprise kept aircraft aloft continuously over Iwo Jima for 174 hours. Departing Ulithi on 15 March...
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    squadrons to spend less time in transit and more time in the area of combat. Ulithi, a small volcanic atoll in the central Pacific, is an example of a site...
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    Western Pacific area of operations, at one point anchored at Naval Base Ulithi. These ships were intended to raise the morale of U.S. troops overseas by...
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    USS Cascade (section Ulithi)
    November 1943, she was stationed successively at Kwajalein, Eniwetok, and Ulithi, while the ships she served ranged the Pacific, escorting convoys, screening...
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    the Ulithi atoll, preparatory to making a series of raids against the home islands. The Japanese mission was changed to an attack on the Ulithi base...
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    assigned to Task Group 12.2, which departed for Ulithi on 29 January. The Task Group reached Ulithi on 6 February and was merged into Task Group 58.5...
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    group for the assault and occupation of the Palau Islands, and arriving at Ulithi on 30 October, served on patrol and escort duty there through 11 January...
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    Islands for about a month at the end of which she steamed to Ulithi Atoll. She departed Ulithi on 10 February 1945, stopped in the Mariana Islands for two...
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    Guam, Saipan, and Tinian) in the due east, and Halmahera, Palau, Yap and Ulithi (of the Caroline Islands) in the southeast. Its southern border is Indonesia's...
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    clearing the area for Ulithi. On the morning of 26 January, she re-entered Ulithi lagoon with TF 38. Yorktown remained at Ulithi arming, provisioning,...
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    in Ulithi Atoll Second world war leapfrogging strategy 1943-1945 map Ulithi atoll USS Shannon (DM-25) in Ulithi Atoll in March 1945 Map of Ulithi Atoll...
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    Pacific Ocean. Shepard joined it when it returned to the naval base at Ulithi on October 30. After just two days at sea Cogswell helped rescue 172 sailors...
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    Destinations Caroline Islands Air Charter: Fais, Houk, Onoun, Pohnpei, Ta, Ulithi, Woleai, Yap United Airlines Guam, Honolulu, Kosrae, Kwajalein, Majuro,...
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    reclassified CLAA-97 on 18 March 1949. Flint reported to the 3rd Fleet for duty at Ulithi on 27 December 1944, and six days later, sailed with Task Force 38 (TF 38)...
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    arrived later that month. South Dakota withdrew to Ulithi the following day. Immediately on arrival in Ulithi on 2 November, South Dakota sortied as part of...
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    that the typhoon was over Luzon, so TF 38 returned to Ulithi. On 30 December, TF 38 departed Ulithi to attack Japanese airfields and shipping in Formosa...
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  • outside of sports, an example being the Essex-class carriers anchored at Ulithi Atoll, which were also known as Murderer's Row. During the 2006 American...
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    Branch, United States Marine Corps Chen, C. Peter (2007), "Palau Islands and Ulithi Islands Campaign", World War II Database, retrieved 19 October 2007 Gayle...
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    powerful tropical cyclone that had devastating impacts on the small atoll of Ulithi in the Caroline Islands. Forming as a tropical depression on November 21...
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    weighed anchor for Ulithi Atoll where she arrived 10 days later. After an overnight stay in the lagoon, Shangri-La departed Ulithi in company with destroyers...
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    Young returned to Ulithi, where she was attached to Task Force 54 (TF 54) for the invasion of Okinawa, for which she sailed from Ulithi 22 March 1945. After...
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