More than 80 years after Operation Hailstone, the wrecks of Truk Lagoon (now Chuuk Lagoon) remain one of the world's greatest underwater museums. In this dive, we explore the famous Unkai Maru, a ...

Seventy years ago today, 92-year-old Ted Waller, of Dallas, was aboard the heavy cruiser USS Portland on which the Japanese military surrendered to Guam's rear admiral in Truk Lagoon. Simultaneously ...

Operation Hailstone began with a massive American surprise attack against Truk’s airfields and fleet anchorage. Waves of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Atlantis isn't the only forgotten civilization buried many leagues under the sea. The remains of at least a dozen lost cities rest ...

A U.S. Navy Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless of Bombing Squadron 5 (VB-5) lands on the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10) after striking the Japanese base at Truk, 17-18 February 1944. The Yorktown senior ...

Over sixty Japanese warships were sunk in Chuuk lagoon in a surprise raid by US carrierbased aircraft on 17 February 1944 Now scattered across the lagoon bottom the Fujikawa Maru Shinkoku Maru Aikoku ...

Swimming amid the shipwrecks of Micronesia's Chuuk Lagoon is like diving into a time machine. A ghost fleet of ships and aircraft, once part of a formidable Japanese naval base, dot the floor of the ...

On 7 May 1942 a World War II naval battle was unfolding in the heart of the Coral Sea a few hundred kilometres off the North Queensland coast. At 0720 hours Japanese scouts spotted the American oil ...

14:05, Sun, Mar 9, 2025 Updated: 14:08, Sun, Mar 9, 2025 At the bottom of its crystal clear waters, Chuuk Lagoon hides the remains of a dark past. Looking at the white sand, palm trees and turquoise ...