Janyary 2, 1944
(7th AF) B-24's bomb Maloelap
January 8, 1944
(7th AF) B-24's bomb shipping and shore installations at Maloelap
January 10, 1944
(7th AF) During the night of 10/11
Jan, 16 B-24's bomb Maloelap
January 11, 1944
(7th AF) 9 B-25 hit 5 vessels and land installations at Maloelap Atoll;
a 5000-ton cargo ship and a small vessel are sunk
January 15, 1944
(7th AF) 9 B-25's flying at deck-level bomb and strafe shipping and shore installations
at Maloelap; 2 vessels are hit and the oil dump, hangars,
other buildings, and runways are damaged; 1 B-25 crashes at sea after being
hit by AA fire.
January 22, 1944
(7th AF) 10 B-25's from Abemama hit Maloelap
January 23, 1944
(7th AF) 21 B-25's from
Tarawa Atoll and Abemama hit Taroa.
January 24, 1944
(7th AF) 12 B-24's bomb
several targets in Maloelap
January 25, 1944
(7th AF) 8 B-25's bomb a vessel and shore targets at Taroa
January 26, 1944
(7th AF) 9 B-25's hit several targets in Maloelap; about 20 fighters attack
the formation
January 27, 1944
(7th AF) 7 B-24's bomb Taroa in a dusk attack
January 28, 1944
(7th AF) 9 B-25 bomb Taroa. B-24's taking off at varying
intervals, carry out several hours of strikes against Maloelap
January 29, 1944
(USN) Four groups of Task Force 58 (Rear Admiral M. A. Mitscher),
opened the campaign to capture the Marshalls with heavy air attacks
on Maloelap. On the first day the defending enemy air
forces were eliminated and complete control of the air was maintained by carrier
aircraft during the entire operation.
(7th AF) B-24's, attacking from bases in the Gilberts maintain day and
night attacks (both multiple-plane missions and single-plane attacks at intervals)
against Maloelap
February 4, 1944
(7th AF) B-24 bomb Maloelap and B-25s hit Maloelap
February 6, 1944
(7th AF) B-24s hit Maloelap
February 9, 1944
(7th AF) During a dusk-to-dawn operation on 9/10 Feb B-24s operating at intervals maintain strikes against Taroa
February 13, 1944
(7th AF)
During the night of 13/14 Feb, B-24s operating individually at intervals, bomb Taroa
February 16, 1944
(7th AF) B-24s bomb Wotje
Atoll and Taroa.
February 23, 1944
(7th AF) B-25s from Abemama hit
Taroa
March 7, 1944
(7th AF) B-25s
pound runways, AA positions, storage areas, and barracks on Taroa.
March 9, 1944
(7th AF) B-25s attack
Taroa
April 9, 1944
(7th AF) A single B-25 bombs Taroa
May 18, 1944
(7th AF) B-25s bomb
Taroa
