Operation Hailstone

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Operation Hailstone was a large-scale United States Navy air and surface attack on Truk Lagoon on 17–18 February 1944, conducted as part of the American offensive drive against the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific Ocean theatre of World War II.

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Image: Photographed by War Correspondent Smith. Torpedo dropped by pilot Lt. Paul Eugene Dickson., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.