[Billthedrill]

A BTT. "Revenge attacks"? What an odd phrase - we'd been at war at that point for almost three years. This was, for those who might not recognize the operational name, the attack on the immense Japanese facilities at Truk.

An ex-colleague of mine dove the area. Brought back some great pictures and said that they didn't do it justice.

[decimon]

Thanks. 'Chuuk' wasn't ringing any bells.

Wikipedia has an article on this.

[SunkenCiv]

I remember circa 1970 photos taken of the sunken vessels at Truk, probably in one of those cool sometimes sleazy men’s magazines of the time (”True” “Argosy” etc), when the wrecks were only 25 years or so. Those much older photos were also cool.