Life magazine photographer George Stock accompanied the landing force on Eniwetok. The images he captured are among the most searing of the Pacific War.
The cost of the bitter war of extermination forced on American commanders by Japanese defensive strategy was laid bare by Stock.
The price of victory at Eniwetok Atoll for US forces was 313 killed and 879 wounded. The Japanese, who, as FM William Slim observed, always fought to the last man and the last bullet, was 3,380 killed out of a combined force of 3,500.
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