November 16, 1943
(7th AF) B-24's from Nanumea and Nukufeta bomb Jaluit and Maloelap.
November 17, 1943
(7th AF) Twenty B-24' bomb Maloelap.
November 24, 1943
(7th AF)
Twenty B-24's out of Nanumea bomb Maloelap Atoll scoring hits on the landing ground and a cargo vessel.
November 25, 1943
(7th AF) B-24s bomb Taroa and damage guardboat Takeura Maru.
November 30, 1943
(7th AF) Ten B-24s strike Maloelap. Two attack a cargo ship and other vessels near Maloelap.
December 7, 1943
(7th AF) Fourteen B-24s hit targets on Maloelap.
December 14, 1943
(7th AF) Sixteen B-24s bomb Maloelap.
December 15, 1943
(7th AF) Twenty B-24's bomb Taroa Airfield at Maloelap Atoll.
December 17, 1943
(7th AF) Ten B-24s bomb Maloelap Atoll.
December 19, 1943
(7th AF) 29 B-24's from Nanumea and Baker bomb barracks, hangars, and wharf areas on Mille and Maloelap.
December 20, 1943
(7th AF) Sixteen B-24's flying out of Nanumea and Baker bomb Maloelap.
December 23, 1943
(7th AF) Nine B-24s hit Maloelap.
December 28, 1943
(7th AF) Fifteen B-24's from Funafuti and Canton, staging through Tarawa and Baker hit Maloelap.
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. Avengers from VT-5 attack Taroa. Lost is TBF 06175 (KIA), TBF 06213 piloted by Lt. Donald R. Simensen (MIA), TBF 06175, TBF 06265 and TBM 25199.
(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.
