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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.
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 ...
4.3 Truk Lagoon. 5 Indian Ocean. Toggle Indian Ocean subsection. 5.1 Red Sea. 6 Freshwater Shipwrecks. Toggle Freshwater Shipwrecks subsection. 6.1 Great Lakes ...
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 ...
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 ...
Fujikawa Maru is regarded as the best scuba diving site in Chuuk Lagoon by both of the principal authors who have undertaken comprehensive surveys of the lagoon, Dan E. Bailey [2] and Klaus Lindemann. Amongst the more striking features on the wreck are at least nine disassembled Mitsubishi fighter aircraft in one of the forward holds.
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) Pages in category "Shipwrecks of the Caroline Islands" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.