The Truk Atoll, now known as the Chuuk Lagoon, lies about 900 miles northeast of the main island of Papua New Guinea and ...

Late last month, the island of Chuuk — one of four main islands comprising the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and also home to nearly half the country’s population — postponed a referendum vote ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Wartime studies of underwater explosions in support of the plan to nuke Chuuk helped plan Shot Baker, Crossroads’ underwater test. Baker produced what is perhaps the ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: However, just as the Japanese attack on Hawaii missed the U.S. carriers, so the American attack on Chuuk missed Japan’s capital ships — they’d withdrawn to Palau just ...

The shipwrecks of Japanese warships have been beneath the waters of the remote Pacific atoll for around 80 years now, ...

The Coast Guard and its partner agencies searched a combined 9,521 miles since Saturday and rescued Tuesday five adults and one child aboard a 19-foot vessel near Etal Atoll in Chuuk, Federated States ...

After 80 years at the bottom of a remote Pacific lagoon, a sunken Japanese warship has begun to spill its toxic cargo into ...

STORY DEVELOPS. WELL, YESTERDAY ON THIS BROADCAST, WE REPORTED ON 11 PEOPLE, ALL FROM THE UPSTATE BEING STRANDED ON A TINY ISLAND IN MICRONESIA. RASHAD WILLIAMS HAS BEEN FOLLOWING THIS. AND TONIGHT, ...

A University of Guam team led by Associate Professor William Jeffery has received grant funding to identify, survey, and help preserve the less-documented World War II sites, including three unlocated ...

Seven people stranded on an 18-foot vessel for six days in the Western Pacific were rescued Monday. It took a combined effort of the U.S. Coast Guard, Air Force, Navy and various civilian good ...

The Truk Atoll, now known as the Chuuk Lagoon, lies about 900 miles northeast of the main island of Papua New Guinea and 3,500 miles southeast of Hawaii. Japan used the atoll to help double its ...