Ulithi, the biggest and most active naval base in the world...

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Its existence kept secret throughout the war, the US naval base at Ulithi was for a time the world’s largest naval facility.
In March 1945, 15 battleships, 29 carriers, 23 cruisers, 106 destroyers, and a train of oilers and supply ships sailed from "a Pacific base."
What was this base?
The mightiest force of naval Power ever assembled must have required a tremendous supporting establishment. 
Ulithi, the biggest and most active naval base in the world was indeed tremendous but it was unknown.
Few civilians had heard of it at all. By the time security released the name, the remarkable base of Ulithi was a ghost.
The war had moved on to the Japanese homeland, and the press was not printing ancient history about Ulithi...
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