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Pacific Islands, Chuuk
Chuuk Lagoon
Operation Hailstone ghost fleet
Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Wreck timberAlso reported: eyes-only: holds full of trucks, tanks, aircraft, shells.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS photo (Public domain).
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Why this spot
US carrier aircraft sank more than 40 Japanese merchant ships and warships inside the lagoon on 17 to 18 February 1944, leaving the world's greatest concentration of wartime wrecks
Hailstone losses and the wreck fleet are documented (Operation Hailstone, Chuuk Lagoon); the Truk Lagoon fleet joined the US National Register in 1976
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
deep penetration divingUnexploded ordnance and fuel oil inside hulls, remote medical support
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