Seventy years ago today, 92-year-old Ted Waller, of Dallas, was aboard the heavy cruiser USS Portland on which the Japanese military surrendered to Guam's rear admiral in Truk Lagoon. Simultaneously ...

A U.S. Navy Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless of Bombing Squadron 5 (VB-5) lands on the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10) after striking the Japanese base at Truk, 17-18 February 1944. The Yorktown senior ...

The 2023 Australia Day Legend of Mount Isa died at Townsville University Hospital on Thursday, January 8, leaving a legacy that spans more than five decades of service to the mining city. He was the ...

Over sixty Japanese warships were sunk in Chuuk lagoon in a surprise raid by US carrierbased aircraft on 17 February 1944 Now scattered across the lagoon bottom the Fujikawa Maru Shinkoku Maru Aikoku ...

Swimming amid the shipwrecks of Micronesia's Chuuk Lagoon is like diving into a time machine. A ghost fleet of ships and aircraft, once part of a formidable Japanese naval base, dot the floor of the ...

Follow the climactic battles and aftermath of Operation Hailstone that shattered Japanese control of Truk Lagoon. From naval engagements with battleships Iowa and New Jersey to night raids and the ...

Explore the rise of Truk Lagoon as a strategic stronghold of the Japanese Imperial Navy before World War II. This video reveals how Japan fortified the lagoon with airfields, coastal defenses, and a ...

On the night of October 24, 1944, in the last year of World War II, the submarine USS Tang sank during the attack on a Japanese convoy in the Taiwan Strait. Curiously, it had been struck by one of its ...

On May 6, 2025 at the age of 76, Dr. Dennis Arthur Weis took his last breath on this earth and his first one in Heaven after living with pancreatic cancer for over two years. He was lovingly cared for ...