Ads
related to: raid on truk 1944 world war 2 game
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
6 auxiliary ships sunk. 32 merchant ships sunk. 9 vessels damaged. 250+ aircraft destroyed. Operation Hailstone was a massive United States Navy air and surface attack on Truk Lagoon on 17–18 February 1944, conducted as part of the American offensive drive against the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific Ocean theatre.
Operation Inmate was an attack by the British Pacific Fleet against Japanese positions on Truk Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean during the Second World War.The attacks against the isolated islands on 14 and 15 June 1945 were conducted to provide combat experience for the aircraft carrier HMS Implacable and several of the fleet's cruisers and destroyers ahead of their involvement in more ...
The bombing of Rabaul in November 1943 was an air attack conducted by the Allies of World War II upon a cruiser force at the major Japanese base of Rabaul.In response to the Allied invasion of Bougainville, the Japanese had brought a strong cruiser force down to Rabaul from Truk, their major naval base in the Caroline Islands about 800 miles north of Rabaul in preparation for a night ...
In his autobiography Baa Baa Black Sheep, U.S. Marine Corps ace pilot Gregory "Pappy" Boyington claims that the film briefly shows the small pit in which he and five other prisoners of war took cover during the Truk raid. Boyington had been captured by the Japanese and was being transported to a prison camp on the Truk islands when the raid began.
Operation Matterhorn was a military operation of the United States Army Air Forces in World War II for strategic bombing by Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers based in India, Ceylon, and China. Targets included industrial facilities in Japan, China and Southeast Asia. The B-29s were based in India but staged through bases around Chengdu in China ...
Battlestrike: Call to Victory) (2004) World War II Combat: Road to Berlin (aka. Battlestrike: Secret Weapons of WWII) (2006) World War II Combat: Iwo Jima (aka. The Heat of War) (2006) Wolfschanze 1944: The Final Attempt (2006) Battlestrike: Force of Resistance (aka. Mortyr 3) (2007) Operation Thunderstorm (aka.