From Wikipedia.
Back on June 6th, I wrote about the USMC proposal to use this island in the Pacific for large-scale amphibious landing practice. First, back in the 70s it was desert warfare training, now this. Are they trying to tell us something?
Anyway, some background on this island I'd never heard of before.
In 1914, during World War I, it was captured by Japan who was awarded control of it after the war by the League of Nations under the South Pacific Mandate.
An airfield was built on it in 1935 and the Imperial Japanese Navy garrisoned it in 1937. In June 1944, 2150 Imperial Japanese Army soldiers arrived and were cut off by the Allied offensive, receiving supplies only occasionally by submarine. Facing starvation, several hundred died of malnutrition.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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