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 ...

Formerly known as Truk Atoll, the lagoon is part of Chuuk State in the ... In February 1944, during the US attack on the Japanese naval base, known as Operation Hailstone, over 4,500 Japanese ...

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.