More than 4000 Japanese soldiers perished when Chuuk Lagoon, known as "Truk" at the time, was bombarded by US forces at the ...

National Geographic Explorer-at-Large Bob Ballard revisits the Iron Bottom Sound—rediscovering vessels, and making new finds.

The mural, "A Chart of the Cruises of the USS Yorktown," had been partially visible in historic photographs taken before the ...

A vehicle was found in the hangar of the USS Yorktown, which was famously sunk by a Japanese submarine during the Battle of ...

The U.S.S. Edsall’s 2023 discovery at the bottom of the Indian Ocean is reviving the tale of the ship the Japanese forces ...

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

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Oil has leaked from a Japanese ship sunk in Micronesia's Chuuk Lagoon during World War II, prompting a declaration of a state emerge ...

A new study published in Marine Pollution Bulletin shows that oil is still seeping from the wreck of the USS Arizona, more ...

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The National Museum of the Philippines (NMP) will embark on a two-week archaeological exploration of the San Bernardino ...