Operation Hailstone begins 70 years ago today (Feb 17 1944)


Video: 'Operation Hailstone, by Steve Evans'

(Thursday, February 17, 1944; part of World War IIPacific War)Operation Hailstone, a massive naval air and surface attack by the United States Navy against the Japanese naval and air base at Truk Lagoon, Japan’s main base in the central Pacific, began today in support of the Eniwetok invasion.