World War 2

[Skink]

Does anyone remember the name of a pacific island? i know what happened here is the info.

Sometime in either 1942 or 1943, the U.S. code breakers had gotten a tip through japanese communication that a large base in the south pacific needed to be refuled because it’s airbase was low on fuel.

The U.S. high command soon learned that it was a lagoon that held a great number of Japanese ships, destroyers, battleships, subs and a large airfield. They sent a strike group to smash the base.

They sent if I can remember correctly two carriers with support. The carriers launched all their planes, the planes attacked the entire lagoon, the japs were unprepared. The entire place was destroyed and the airfield was a wreck.

Great raid. Can’t remember it’s fraking name for the love of me.

[Skink]

It's called "Japan's Peal Harbor" by some people, i tried to google it, but i couldn't find it. I typed in Imperial Japanese Naval Bases, nothing.


I typed in raids on Japanese bases. Nothing. It's driving me mad.

[vmkeith]

From your description, I'm leaning more towards the Battle of Midway in June 1942...if that's not it I'll keep looking, because now you have me intrigued.

[vmkeith]

The only other candidate that I've been able to find is possibly the Battle of Tarawa.

[Skink]

It's Turk! Turk! I finally remembered it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hailstone

[Admiral Link]

Does anyone remember the name of a pacific island? i know what happened here is the info.

Sometime in either 1942 or 1943, the U.S. code breakers had gotten a tip through japanese communication that a large base in the south pacific needed to be refuled because it’s airbase was low on fuel.

The U.S. high command soon learned that it was a lagoon that held a great number of Japanese ships, destroyers, battleships, subs and a large airfield. They sent a strike group to smash the base.

They sent if I can remember correctly two carriers with support. The carriers launched all their planes, the planes attacked the entire lagoon, the japs were unprepared. The entire place was destroyed and the airfield was a wreck.

Great raid. Can’t remember it’s fraking name for the love of me.

what year did Hornet sank? Was it Hornet, Enterprise? Which ship was famous in which it survived the entire World War II in the Pacific Theatre?

[MikeClark]

It's Turk! Turk! I finally remembered it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hailstone

Well, not Turk -- Truk -- but that's quite a battle! I'm surprised I had never heard of it.

[vmkeith]

I just watched an episode of Deep Sea Detectives titled "Pearl Harbor's Revenge." It was primarily about the Japanese Sub I-169. This took place in Truk Lagoon, days after the Battle of Truk in April of 1944. It was very interesting to hear the brief outline of the battle, and was extremely surprising to see some underwater footage of the massive undersea wrecks. According to the show, the wrecks range from 30ft to 230ft underwater. A major source of income for the Micronesian's is actually wreck diving. When the narrator of the show mentioned that Truk was referred to as Japan's Pearl Harbor, I thought of this post.

If anyone is interested in checking it out, go to Netflix.com and do a search for Deep Sea Detectives.

[fieldmouse]

After reading these it occured to me that some of you might not be familiar with the role that code breaking actually had in the pacific conflict.

Further you might not know of the intercept station on monkey point corregidor island phillipines. Or of the code breaking activity that occured there. Even further you might want to ask your self how come the japanese knew about the station, It's personnel and their names. The majority were packed aboard a sub and withdrawn to austrailia where they continued to function. If you think the battaan death march was bad you should examine the fate of any personnel associated with monkey point who didn't get off the Rock. Or for that matter any of the people who simply took shelter in the tunnel after the station was abandonded.

This bread crumb trail will lead you to why Carlson's Raiders went after the radio transmission station in the famous makin raid. From there you might uncover the relationship to both the marine landings on the canal and later on Midway being identified as AF in Japanese Transmissions.

You might even get as far as asking yourself why USAAF and Bomber Command were NOT permitted to bomb a specific 4 square mile area of Berlin Germany. Good luck the journey is worth the effort.

"There is nothing more necessary than good intelligence to frustrate a designing enemy, & nothing requires greater pains to obtain."
--George Washington