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| Keywords: Lot-5279-2: U.S. Forces Small Japanese Bases in Western Caroline Islands, 29-30 March 1944. Thick smoke mushrooms skyward from Japanese positions on Yap Island pounded by American carrier-based bombers during a U.S. Navy Task Force 58 assault on enemy bases. U.S. surface units and planes sank 28 Japanese ships, damaged 18 others, destroyed 160 enemy planes and probably wrecked another 54 during the assault. The raid cost U.S. forces 18 men and 25 planes. U.S. Navy Photograph. (2015/10/30). Note: TF 58 began bombing of Japanese airfields, shipping, fleet servicing facilities, and other installations at Palau, Yap, Ulithi, and Woleai in the Carolines. TBFs and TBMs from USS Lexington (CV 16), USS Bunker Hill (CV 19), and USS Hornet (CV 12) bombed extensive minefields in and around the channels and approaches to the Palaus in the first tactical use of mines laid by carrier aircraft. Lot-5279-2: U.S. Forces Small Japanese Bases in Western Caroline Islands, 29-30 March 1944. Thick smoke mushrooms skyward from Japanese positions on Yap Island pounded by American carrier-based bombers during a U.S. Navy Task Force 58 assault on enemy bases. U.S. surface units and planes sank 28 Japanese ships, damaged 18 others, destroyed 160 enemy planes and probably wrecked another 54 during the assault. The raid cost U.S. forces 18 men and 25 planes. U.S. Navy Photograph. (2015/10/30). Note: TF 58 began bombing of Japanese airfields, shipping, fleet servicing facilities, and other installations at Palau, Yap, Ulithi, and Woleai in the Carolines. TBFs and TBMs from USS Lexington (CV 16), USS Bunker Hill (CV 19), and USS Hornet (CV 12) bombed extensive minefields in and around the channels and approaches to the Palaus in the first tactical use of mines laid by carrier aircraft. | ||||
