The Chuuk Islands, formerly Truk Islands, are now part of the Chuuk State of the Federated States of Micronesia. The Japanese Combined Fleet had a base on the islands during the war, and about 40 ...
Below its emerald waters, these tropical islands in the heart of the Pacific conceal the world's biggest underwater graveyard.
Few white men had ever seen Truk, one of the world’s great naval outposts. The Japs clamped a lid on it years ago when they began developing it as the key to their South Pacific empire-to-be.