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World War II shipwrecks in the Yellow Sea (4 P) Pages in category "World War II shipwrecks in the Pacific Ocean" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 431 total.
A Design 1023 cargo ship sunk by the Japanese submarine I-26 off the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the first American ship sunk off the coast of the State of Washington during World War II 48°19′N 125°40′W / 48.317°N 125.667°W / 48.317; -125.667 ( SS Coast
Shipwrecks of Norfolk Island (1 P) Shipwrecks of the Northern Mariana Islands coast (1 P) ... World War II shipwrecks in the Pacific Ocean (14 C, 431 P) Y.
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.
"Ironbottom Sound" (alternatively Iron Bottom Sound or Ironbottomed Sound or Iron Bottom Bay) is the name given by Allied sailors to the stretch of water at the southern end of The Slot between Guadalcanal, Savo Island, and Florida Island of the Solomon Islands, because of the dozens of ships and planes that sank there during the naval actions ...
It earned the nickname “the Ghost Ship of the Pacific.” The ship was in “exceptional” condition after 78 years under the sea, according to the search team. Ocean Infinity
It was sunk northwest of Hawaii during the Battle of Midway in June 1942.
After carrying two companies of infantry and two battalions of coast artillery, about 1,100 men, for the Canton Island garrison, and possibly due to loss of an anchor while landing troops and equipment by means of shallow draft craft from outside the lagoon, the ship became firmly grounded on the coral reef. The hull was eventually scrapped by ...