Most of the airfields and other facilities Japan had built were destroyed in allied bombing raids and naval bombardment.

[1][2] At the start of World War I, Japan took control of the Marshall Islands from the German Empire.

[3][4] The tropical Marshall Islands are near the Equator in the Pacific Ocean, slightly west of the International Date Line.

Compact of Free Association was make between the Marshall Islands and United States on 21 October 1986.

The vast Kwajalein Missile Range was built Marshall Islands during the Cold War.