5. No Combatants
Value Estimate Present: Unknown
Date of Disappearance: 1944
Discovered in 1944
Some aircraft may be intentionally submerged in the ocean, but other aircraft meet an untimely end and are buried deep beneath the surface. That is the tale of the wreckage of nearly sixty aircraft, including Zero Fighters, at Truk Lagoon.
Combatants Zero ©Rob/stock.adobe.com
During the Second World War’s Operation Hailstone, in which the US Navy fought the Japanese Navy in the Pacific, more than a hundred ships capsized into the Truk Lagoon. Today, the location serves as an underwater war museum housing numerous salvageable Zero Fighter parts, ranging from machine gun ammunition to wings.
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