This guide provides an extensive historical background as well as an operational narrative for the FLINTLOCK operation. .

Contents: Command Historian’s Preface and Acknowledgments; US Army Space and Missile Defense Command Data Sheet; Introduction; The Colonial Period: Spanish, German and Japanese, 1550-1943; Japanese and American Post-War Planning, 1904-1938; The Japanese-American Road to War, 1940-1941; Wartime Actions and Planning, 1941-1943; The First Test of Amphibious Assault: Tarawa; The Marshalls Decided On; Organization and Command of Operation Flintlock; The Campaign Begins, November 1943; The Assault Begins, 31 January 1944; The Seizure of Kwajalein, 1-4 February 1944; The Roi-Namur Assault Begins, 31 January 1944; Roi-Namur Captured, 1-2 February 1944 and the Seizure of Engebi and Eniwetok; Strategic and Tactical Significance of the Marshall Islands Campaign; Self-Guided Battlefield tour; Appendices.