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Truk Lagoon, Operation Hailstone

Truk Lagoon was Japan's main base in the South Pacific in the Second World War. In Operation Hailstone, on 17-18 February 1944, American carrier aircraft and warships sank much of the shipping there. The wrecks on the lagoon floor, the 'Ghost Fleet of Truk Lagoon', are now one of the world's best-known wreck dives.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1944 CE mainstream
  17-18 February, Operation Hailstone: US carrier aircraft and surface ships attack the lagoon; the ammunition ship Aikoku Maru explodes with 945 people, and almost 200,000 tons of shipping is lost source
• 1971 CE mainstream
  after Jacques Cousteau's television documentary about the lagoon, its sunken ships draw wreck divers from all over the world source

Where

7.3393° N, 151.8846° E

The point is Wikipedia's position for Operation Hailstone, in Truk (Chuuk) Lagoon in the Caroline Islands.

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hailstone
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuuk_Lagoon

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