It may look like a tropical Paradise, but this stunning lagoon hides a dark secret.
In the deep blue waters of the Pacific ocean, Truk lagoon, nowadays known as Chuuk, near the island of New Guinea is more than a dozen Japanese warships, three dozen merchant ships and a hundred aircraft.
Atoll was one of the main naval bases of the Imperial Japanese Navy South Pacific during world war II. Given the proximity of the Marshall Islands, the support of the flotilla on the Atoll of Chuuk was very important. Truk lagoon even called the Gibraltar of the South Pacific.
On 17 February 1944 the operation “Halston”. The result of the 2-day step 12 sunken Japanese warships, 34 of a merchant ship and more than 250 aircraft. The human cost of the Japanese numbered in the thousands. Today, the Chuuk Atoll has become an ideal place for diving.
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