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In the Pacific Ocean, the south-western part, in the Caroline Archipelago, there is a small group of islands. Their name - Chuuk - little to say to our contemporaries. But during World War II it housed a major naval base of the Imperial Japanese Navy. In 1944, the US Navy conducted an operation "Hilston", during which let to the bottom of some sixty Japanese ships. That is to say, the answer to Pearl Harbor. Date of implementation of the action - on February 17th.
It was a strategically important facility, which were placed okolo forty thousand military and grazhdanskih persons airfield and headquarters directed the actions of the Japanese Navy in the region. During the operation, it was virtually destroyed the Imperial forces of the Fourth, Sixth submarine fleet and two hundred seventy-five aircraft.
Losses Americans were much more modest - twenty-five aircraft.
Since then, the bottom of the lagoon High Mountains (as translated Chuuk) has become the largest ship graveyard.
A quarter of a century, all the wealth of underwater untouched - feared sunken munitions. Currently, however, the divers are actively exploring sunken treasure. By the way, the best sohranilas farforovaya utensils. Fakticheski, spolosnut - and on the table.