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// June 7th, 2010 // No Comments » // Travel
Tucked away in one of the deepest, darkest corners of military history is Ulithi Atoll, a staging area for the U.S. Navy during World War II. Overshadowed by other Micronesian islands such as Peleliu, Kwajalein and Tarawa, Ulithi was for seven months the world’s largest naval facility, a stepping stone in the United States’ island-hopping campaign across the Pacific. (more…)
// June 7th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Travel
Like the sunken ships that clot its seas and the rusting artillery that has long since cooled on its jungly hillsides, Micronesia has nearly fallen off the map of the American psyche. Once a vast U.S.-administered territory the size of Australia, the islands now sound foreign to American ears: Palau, Marianas, Marshalls and the Federated States of Micronesia.
