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Location of Naval Base Fiji on the Fiji Islands in the Pacific
Naval Base Fiji United States Navy
(1942–1945)
Map of the many Fiji Islands
US Marines enter a landing boat at Fiji 28 July 1942, to practice amphibious landings to prepare for the landings at Guadalcanal

Naval Base Fiji was a naval base built by the United States Navy in 1942 to support the World War II effort. The base was located on Fiji in the Central Pacific Ocean. The base was built as one of many advance bases in the island-hopping campaign towards the Empire of Japan. The US Navy built seaports, seaplane bases and airfields used for staging in the Pacific War.[1]

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