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Ghost Fleet of the Truk Lagoon: An Account of "Operation Hailstone", February, 1944. Pictorial Histories. ISBN 0-933126-66-2. Wright III, Burton. Eastern Mandates. The U.S. Army Campaigns in World War II. United States Army Center of Military History. Archived from the original on 22 September 2013
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 ...
Ghost Fleet of Truk Lagoon, a fleet of ships in Chuuk Lagoon during World War II; Media. Ghost Fleet by P. W. Singer and August Cole; See also. Mallows Bay ...
The lagoon became well known after being the subject of a 1971 episode of The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, titled 'Lagoon of Lost Ships'. Of the roughly 45 ship wrecks that make up Chuuk's "Ghost Fleet", the Heian Maru is among the most popular with divers.
Tonan Maru No. 3 was sunk by US carrier-based aircraft on 17 February 1944 whilst positioned at in the Chuuk Lagoon [ 15 ] [ 20 ] She was one of 30 Japanese ships sunk in Operation Hailstone , a raid of Chuuk by aircraft from the USS Bunker Hill , Enterprise , Essex , Intrepid and Yorktown .
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EU targets Russia's ghost fleet shipping oil in a new round of sanctions BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union envoys have agreed a new raft of sanctions against Russia over its war on Ukraine, targeting in particular a vast shadow fleet of ships that Moscow is exploiting to skirt restrictions on transporting oil and fuel, the EU’s Hungarian ...