Hailstorm over Truk Lagoon
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Hailstorm over Truk Lagoon is a book by Klaus Lindemann about the shipwrecks of Truk lagoon.
The wrecks were caused by Operation Hailstone, a US Navy aerial attack on the Japanese-held islands of the lagoon on 17 and 18 February 1944. American naval forces neutralized the lagoon's offensive capacity but did not try to capture it; instead they leapfrogged the islands and captured the Mariana Islands, which were within bomber range of Japan.