THE SECRETS OF TRUK LAGOON
Ninety minutes before daybreak on February 17, 1944, Operation Hailstone was launched from three U.S. aircraft carrier groups in the South Pacific. Hundreds of American warplanes ravaged the Japanese-held island airfields and harbors of Truk Lagoon, one of the most formidable Japanese naval air bases in the Pacific.
The low-flying torpedo bombers and dive bombers did not show up on Japanese radar, and so were a complete
