Kahoolawe is where the military prepared for assults on islands in the Western Pacific and also where they trained after WWII.
Thousands of soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen, and coastguardsmen prepared on KahoEolawe for the brutal and costly assaults on islands such as the Gilbert and Marshall Islands, the Marianas and Pelileu, New Guinea, et cetera, in the Western Pacific. Military and naval training on KahoEolawe continued following World War II. 
