In February 1944, the United States launched a devastating attack on Truk Lagoon, a critical Japanese naval base in the Caroline Islands, drawing immediate comparisons to Pearl Harbor. Once considered ...

Chuuk Lagoon is home to the largest naval cemetery with sunken Japanese ships, aircraft, gas masks, bullets, and skulls from World War II. Formerly known as Truk Atoll, the lagoon is part of Chuuk ...

In 1944, the US Navy commences Operation Hailstone, a 48 hours combined air and ground attack that devastates the Japanese position at Truk Lagoon, an atoll in Micronesia.