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Hailstorm Over Truk Lagoon: Operations Against Truk by Carrier Task Force 58, 17 and 18 February 1944, and the Shipwrecks of World War II. Oregon: Resource Publications. ISBN 1-59752-347-X. Peattie, Mark (1992). Nan'Yo: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese in Micronesia, 1885–1945 (Pacific Islands Monograph Series). University of Hawaii Press.
4.3 Truk Lagoon. 5 Indian Ocean. Toggle Indian Ocean subsection. ... Wreck of the Zenobia. List of shipwreck sites which are popular amongst scuba divers for wreck ...
Chuuk Lagoon is part of the larger Caroline Islands group. The area consists of eleven major islands (corresponding to the eleven municipalities of Truk lagoon, which are Tol, Udot, Fala-Beguets, Romanum, and Eot of Faichuk group, and Weno, Fefen, Dublon, Uman, Param, and Tsis of Nomoneas group) and 46 smaller ones within the lagoon, plus 41 on the fringing coral reef, and is known today as ...
Pages in category "Shipwrecks of Truk Lagoon" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Aikoku Maru (1940)
Aikoku Maru explodes World War II: Operation Hailstorm: The Hokuku Maru-class armed merchant cruiser was bombed and damaged, later in the day she exploded and sank in Truk Lagoon, South Pacific Mandate) after being torpedoed by a Grumman TBF Avenger aircraft that went down from the blast. Most of the ships' crew including Captain Nakamaruo and ...
A Kaidai 6-type submarine that sank in a diving accident in Truk Lagoon northwest of Dublon. I-174: 12 April 1944 A Kaidai 6B-type submarine sunk by a United States Navy aircraft southeast of Truk: I-175: 4 February 1944
Shipwrecks of Truk Lagoon (5 P) V. Shipwrecks in the Visayan Sea (4 P) W. Shipwrecks of Wake Island (5 P) Shipwrecks of the War of the Pacific (9 P)
Hailstorm over Truk Lagoon is a book by Klaus Lindemann about the shipwrecks of Truk lagoon. The wrecks were caused by Operation Hailstone, a US Navy aerial attack on the Japanese-held islands of the lagoon on 17 and 18 February 1944. American naval forces neutralized the lagoon's offensive capacity but did not try to capture it; instead they ...