Truk Atoll

The Oxford Companion to World War II | 2001 | 700+ words | Copyright

Truk Atoll is one of the Pacific Caroline Islands chain. Its lagoon harboured the Japanese Combined Fleet and it was also an important Japanese air base. During the Pacific war it was attacked frequently by US aircraft of Task Force 58 and as Eniwetok was being assaulted in February 1944 they mounted the first-ever radar-guided night bomber attack on shipping there. The Combined Fleet had left, but 265 Japanese aircraft were destroyed, 140,000 tons of shipping was sunk, and the naval base was badly damaged. A final strike on 29/30 April destroyed what remained, by which time the US Joint Chiefs of Staff had decided to bypass Truk, which released the troops earmarked to invade it for amphibious warfare landings on the Mariana and Palau Islands.

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