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| Keywords: Ordnance being dropped on Japanese airfield on Truk in April 1944.jpg U S Navy strike photograph from the attack on the Japanese airstrip at Truk Atoll showing ordnance being dropped on 29 April 1944 <br>The attacks in February 1944 had for the most part ended Truk as a major threat to Allied operations in the central Pacific The Japanese later relocated about 100 of their remaining aircraft from Rabaul to Truk These aircraft were attacked by U S carrier forces in another attack on 29 April 1944 which destroyed most of them The U S aircraft dropped 92 bombs over a 29 minute period to destroy the Japanese planes The April 1944 strikes found no shipping in Truk lagoon and were the last major attacks on Truk during the war <br> The photo was taken from a Grumman TBF Avenger of Torpedo Squadron 32 VT-32 Carrier Air Group 32 CVG-32 from the light aircraft carrier USS Langley CVL-27 http //collections naval aviation museum/emuwebdoncoms/pages/doncoms/AdvQuery php U S Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No http //collections naval aviation museum/emuwebdoncoms/pages/doncoms/Display php irn 16022270 QueryPage 2Femuwebdoncoms 2Fpages 2Fdoncoms 2FAdvQuery php 1992 273 019 1944-04-29 U S Navy PD-USGov-Military-Navy Attack on Truk Lagoon April 1944 | ||||
