Ordered to the strategic island of Corregidor, the battalion fiercely defended their assigned sectors against overwhelming enemy forces.

All that stands between them and us are open water and a few strategic islands.

In response, the Japanese Navy made an all-out effort to protect that strategic island, even though doing so meant denuding its remaining carriers of aircraft.

Whipple operated on escort duties, convoying ships to and from the strategic islands for the next three months.

Despite heavy seas and an enemy air attack, she debarked her troops as Allied forces sought to wrestle the strategic island from Axis control.

Two days of severe fighting secured this strategic island in the Battle of Tulagi.

In the Indian Ocean the largest, most powerfully equipped naval forces in history confront each other over a small strategic island.

In 1420, Henry sent an expedition to secure the uninhabited but strategic island of Madeira.

Midway was a strategic island that both sides wished to use as an air base.

The battle for this strategic island, which lay at the gateway to the Japanese homeland, was well underway when LST-840 arrived on the 18th.