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TRAVELLER OUR REGION WHERE SHIPS LIE Roderick Eime visits Chuuk’s Truk Lagoon, one of the world’s best sites for wreck diving, and writes about a harrowing eye-witness account of the World War 2 battle that sent those ships to the bottom of the sea. PICTURES: ANDREW MARRIOTT & RODERICK EIME, USN ARCHIVES 42 Paradise – Air Niugini’s in-flight magazine
TRAVELLER OUR REGION When the three-day carnage was over, 12 smaller Japanese warships and 32 merchant ships were sunk either in the lagoon or at sea while trying to escape. At the same time, 275 aircraft were destroyed. NEW ROUTE Port Moresby Chuuk 1948 km FLIGHT TIME 2 HOURS, 35 MINUTES Down below … a ghostly view inside the spacious engine room of the Shinkoku Maru shipwreck at Truk Lagoon (opposite page); the Kimiuo Aisek Memorial Museum at the Blue Lagoon Dive Resort (above). Young Kimiuo Aisek crouched in the cool shade of the big hibiscus tree at the side of his family compound on Tonoas, watching events unfold. The normally peaceful morning was violently broken as the US fighters, dive bombers and torpedo planes swept through in waves, dropping their deadly cargo on the shore installations, barracks, airfields and ships. The date is February 17, 1944, and it is day one of Operation Hailstone, the US Navy’s mammoth offensive on the sprawling Japanese naval base on the islands and ships in Truk Lagoon, Micronesia. The day would turn out to be one of the major turning points of World War 2 in the Pacific. To give some context to the unfolding scene of that morning, Truk (or Chuuk) had been identified as a favourable anchorage by the Japanese and developed since the mid-1930s to be their main military base for Pacific operations. It was heavily fortified with ship repair facilities, oil storage, several airstrips as well as weather, radio, radar and barracks for the many thousands of army and naval servicemen stationed there. Japan, once an ally of the US and Britain, acquired the islands as a mandate after Germany ceded all its overseas territories following its defeat in World War 1. Germany once had substantial colonial territories across the Pacific that included parts of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands and New Guinea. Kimiuo Aisek was a young and energetic Trukese man who grew up during the period of Japanese occupation and fostered friendly relations with the military through his strong work ethic and agreeable character. Aisek would later found the famous Blue Lagoon Dive Shop on Weno Island at the site of a former fighter aircraft strip. One of Aisek’s closest friends, chief petty officer Uchida, was serving on a vessel named Aikoku Maru and the youth had March – April 2017 43
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