Chuuk's sunken vessels remain in the lagoon, comprising the world's largest ship graveyard. Riddled with torpedo holes, the ships have released some of their contents: gas masks, rotting shoes ...

Project Recover identified the remains of two SBD-5 Dauntless dive bombers and one TBM/F-1 Avenger torpedo bomber in Truk Lagoon, now known as Chuuk State in the Federated States of Micronesia.

The area is not just home to the Ghost Fleet of Truk Lagoon - as the remains at the bottom of the lagoon are sometimes referred to - but is also surrounded by a 225-kilometre barrier reef which ...

The private group Project Recover announced that it had found three U.S. Navy warplanes lost during the February 1944 battle for the island of Truk in the Pacific Ocean.

Three U.S. World War II aircraft have been discovered in a lagoon in Micronesia 76 years after they went missing. The planes, which were part of Operation Hailstone in February 1944, are ...

Three aircraft and the possible remains of seven crew members have been found at the bottom of a Central Pacific lagoon. Found Wreckage of WWII Aircraft Brings Hope for ID of 7 MIA Americans ...