US NAVY ATTACKS TRUK LAGOON (4 PHOTOS) - 1944
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:61107 | Country/Region of Manufacture: United States |
Four (4) scarce “OFFICIAL U.S.NAVY PHOTOGRAPHS” shows the US Navy in action during Operation Hailstone, the attack onTruk Lagoon.
Backs have full captions (see scans).
In 1944, Truk's capacity as a naval base was destroyed through naval air attack. Forewarned by intelligence a week before the US raid, the Japanese had withdrawn their larger warships (heavy cruisers and aircraft carriers) to Palau.
Once the American forces captured the Marshall Islands, they u...sed them as a base from which to launch an early morning attack on February 17, 1944 against Truk Lagoon. Operation Hailstone lasted for three days, as American carrier-based planes sank twelve smaller Japanese warships (light cruisers, destroyers, and auxiliaries) and thirty-two merchant ships, while destroying 275 aircraft, mainly on the ground. The consequences of the attack made "Truk lagoon the biggest graveyard of ships in the world."
The attacks for the most part ended Truk as a major threat to Allied operations in the central Pacific.
Photographs measure 8 x 10 inches and are in very good condition (see scans).
Please email with any questions and please "VIEW SELLERS OTHER ITEMS". Thanks.
NOTE: BUYERS - I can combine shipping and send out 8 ounces of items for the same price as one ounce...or about the equivalent of 6 - 8 x10 photographs.
Backs have full captions (see scans).
In 1944, Truk's capacity as a naval base was destroyed through naval air attack. Forewarned by intelligence a week before the US raid, the Japanese had withdrawn their larger warships (heavy cruisers and aircraft carriers) to Palau.
Once the American forces captured the Marshall Islands, they u...sed them as a base from which to launch an early morning attack on February 17, 1944 against Truk Lagoon. Operation Hailstone lasted for three days, as American carrier-based planes sank twelve smaller Japanese warships (light cruisers, destroyers, and auxiliaries) and thirty-two merchant ships, while destroying 275 aircraft, mainly on the ground. The consequences of the attack made "Truk lagoon the biggest graveyard of ships in the world."
The attacks for the most part ended Truk as a major threat to Allied operations in the central Pacific.
Photographs measure 8 x 10 inches and are in very good condition (see scans).
Please email with any questions and please "VIEW SELLERS OTHER ITEMS". Thanks.
NOTE: BUYERS - I can combine shipping and send out 8 ounces of items for the same price as one ounce...or about the equivalent of 6 - 8 x10 photographs.
