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War Comes to the Marianas
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The line of advance for US troops brought them through Japanese-occupied Micronesia.  First the Gilberts, then the Marshalls, and on to the Marianas.  By the early summer in 1944 US forces had taken the first two island groups and were at the threshold of the Marianas.
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