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 ...

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.

Looking at the white sand, palm trees and turquoise waters of these islands ... and skulls from World War II. Formerly known ...