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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 ...
Assigned a patrol area off Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides, Ro-44 got underway from Truk at 16:30 on 15 January 1944, exiting the lagoon via South Pass to begin her first war patrol. [4] While she was at sea, United States Navy Task Force 58 conducted Operation Hailstone , a major attack on Truk by carrier aircraft supported by anti-shipping ...
The American attacks on the Japanese fleet in 1944 were such that today Truk lagoon is the largest underwater military cemetery in the world (60 ships and 400 aircraft scattered over several kilometers), which attracts divers from all over the world. The diving conditions are very good (visibility 15–40 meters, variations in depth, minor ...
Tonoas (or Tonowas), also known by its Spanish name of Dublon, is an island in the Chuuk (formerly Truk) lagoon, Federated States of Micronesia. It has an area of 8.8 km 2 and the population was 3,514 at the time of the last census (2010-04-04), on an area of 9.17 km².
Eten Island as a district of Tonoas (Dublon) Etten is an island in Chuuk Lagoon (previously known as Truk Lagoon), in the Federated States of Micronesia.It is located 620 meters to the south of Dublon Island and has an area of 52 hectares.
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.
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.
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