Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Abemama Airport yakatanga kuvakwa mukupera kwa1943 neUnited States Navy Seabees ye95th Naval Construction Battalion yeUnited States Army Air Forces. Seventh Air Force yakapa 30th Bombardment Group kunhandare yendege kutanga kwaNdira 1944, ichiisa zvikwata zvina zveB-24 Liberator mabhomba anorema panhandare. Kubva kuAbemama, USAAF yakarwisa vaJapan muMarshall Islands mukugadzirira Hondo yeKwajalein Atoll (29 Ndira - 3 Kukadzi 1944) uye Hondo yeKuwajalein Atoll (29 Ndira - 3 Kukadzi 1944).
Hondo yeEniwetok (17<unk>21 February 1944). Nokuda kweUnited States, hondo idzi dzaimiririra zvose zviri zviviri danho rinotevera mukufamba kwaro kwechitsuwa-chinosvetuka kuenda kuJapan, uye kukunda kunokosha nokuda kwepfungwa, nokuti yakanga iri nguva yokutanga iyo United States yakapinda mu "mhete yokunze" yenzvimbo yokuzvidzivirira yeJapan yePacific.