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US Marine returning to a Coast Guard ship off the coast "Back to a Coast Guard assault transport comes this Marine after two days and nights of Hell on the beach of Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands. His face is grimey with coral dust but the light of battle stays in his eyes." February 1944. The thousand-yard stare. This Marine returned to a coast guard assault transport after two days and nights of hell on the beach of Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands. His face is grimey with coral dust, but the light of battle is visible in his eyes. . February, 1944. Private Theodore James Miller (12 February, 1925 - 24 March, 1944), from Minnesota, returned to attack transport USS Arthur Middleton (APA-25) at 1400 hours after two days of combat on Engebi, the first of the Eniwetok Atoll to be invaded by American forces. Most defenders were killed. Miller would die in a fire fight at Ebon Atoll one month later. . The Battle of Eniwetok commenced on 17 February, 1944, as the US 22nd Marine