Truk, Micronesia

In the morning Ard and I got up and packed. We had a small breakfast then we went to the airport. While we were waiting for the plane it started to rain but stopped soon. Nothing unusual happened on the plane. When we landed we got our luggage and go on ...

... up we went and had breakfast then we got ready to go out on a glass bottom boach to see some of the Japanese sunken ships from the Truk bombing in World War II. Our guide's name was Gara. The ships were all under water. One of them had been sunk in such ...

This morning the Odyssey (our liveaboard) dropped us off on Truk at 8:00AM. We checked into one of the two hotels on the island for the day. I spent some time at the beach appreciating all of its beauty before my long trip home. We left our hotel at 11: ...

... . In addition, 27 ships were damaged. From 14 March to 7 April 1944 B-24 Mitchell bombers repeatedly attacked Truk from Bougainville destroying 130 aircraft. On 29-30 April 1944 further attacks by aircraft from 12 carriers destroyed 123 aircraft and 3 ...