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US Naval Base Carolines
Location of US Naval Base
Establishment
• US Navy Base
1944
Time zoneUTC+10 and +11
Sorlen Island and the north anchorage of Ulithi Atoll in late 1944.
Caroline Islands north of the Melanesia Islands
A map of the Federated States of Micronesia
Micronesia is one of three major areas in the Pacific Ocean, along with Polynesia and Melanesia

US Naval Base Carolines included a number of United States Navy bases on the Caroline Islands in the western Pacific Ocean, to the north of New Guinea during World War II. The bases were built to support the island hopping Pacific war efforts of the allied nations fighting the Empire of Japan.[1]

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