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.

Chuuk Lagoon is home to the largest naval cemetery with sunken Japanese ships, aircraft, gas masks, bullets, and skulls from ...

Jean-Baptiste Cazajous photographed the wreck of the Togo, a coal transport ship sunk by a mine explosion ... Rio de Janeiro wreck in Micronesia's Truk Lagoon. The Rio de Janeiro was a passenger ...

The winning wreck photo shows a ship that sank when it hit a reef in ... control room of the Rio de Janeiro wreck in Micronesia's Truk Lagoon. The Rio de Janeiro was a passenger and cargo liner ...

when the US Navy attacked Japanese forces at Truk Lagoon and sank 200,000 tons of shipping, according to the US Naval Institute. "In the control room of the Rio De Janeiro wreck, I photographed this ...