The Truk garrison received few shipments of reinforcements or supplies following the capture of the Palau islands by US forces in September 1944, and historian David Hobbs has stated that it had been "reduced to starving impotence" by the time of Operation Inmate.
A gornición recibira poucos reforzos trala captura das illas Palau por parte das forzas estadounidenses en setembro de 1944, e o historiador David Hobbs afirmou que no momento da Operación Inmate a base estaba "reducida a un estado de impotencia famélica".