Operasi Hailstone

Operasi Hailstone (yang dikenal di Jepang dengan sebutan Jepang: トラック島空襲 Torakku-tō Kūshū, yang artinya "serangan udara di Pulau Truk") adalah sebuah serangan permukaan dan udara angkatan laut masif yang diluncurkan pada 16-17 Februari 1944, pada Perang Dunia II oleh Angkatan Laut Amerika Serikat melawan pangkalan angkatan udara dan angkatan laut Jepang di Truk di Kepulauan Caroline, sebuah wilayah Jepang pada masa sebelum perang.

Latar belakang

Newsreel AS 1944 tentang serangan tersebut

Truk merupakan sebuah pangkalan logistik utama Jepang serta pangkalan "rumah" yang beroperasi untuk Armada Gabungan Angkatan Laut Kekaisaran Jepang.

Bacaan tambahan

• Bailey, Dan E. (1992). World War II: Wrecks of the Kwajalein and Truk Lagoons. North Valley Diver Publications. ISBN 0-911615-05-9. 
• Brown, David (1990). Warship Losses of World War Two. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-914-X. 
• Brown, Herbert C. (2000). Hell at Tassafaronga. Ancient Mariners Pr. ISBN 0-9700721-4-7. -Firsthand account of Operation Hailstone by a crewmember of USS New Orleans.
• Cressman, Robert J. (2000). The official chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-149-1. 
• D'Albas, Andrieu (1965). Death of a Navy: Japanese Naval Action in World War II. Devin-Adair Pub. ISBN 0-8159-5302-X. 
• Ito, Masanori (1986). The End of the Imperial Japanese Navy (edisi ke-reissue). Jove. ISBN 0-515-08682-7. 
• Lacroix, Eric; Linton Wells (1997). Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-311-3. 
• Lindemann, Klaus (2005). Hailstorm Over Truk Lagoon: Operations Against Truk by Carrier Task Force 58, 17 and 18 February 1944, and the Shipwrecks of World War II. Oregon, USA: Resource Publications. ISBN 1-59752-347-X. 
• Morison, Samuel Eliot (1961). Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls, June 1942-April 1944, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. ASIN B0007FBB8I. 
• Peattie, Mark (1992). Nan'Yo: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese in Micronesia, 1885-1945 (Pacific Islands Monograph Series). University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0-8248-1480-0. 
• Stafford, Edward P. (2002). The Big E: The Story of the USS Enterprise (edisi ke-reissue). Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-998-0. 
• Stewart, William Herman (1986). Ghost Fleet of the Truk Lagoon: An Account of "Operation Hailstone", February, 1944. Pictorial Histories. ISBN 0-933126-66-2. 
• Wright III, Burton. Eastern Mandates. The US Army Campaigns in World War II. United States Army Center of Military History. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2013-09-22. Diakses tanggal 2015-12-27. 
• Tashirō Iwashige, The visual guide of Japanese wartime merchant marine, "Dainippon Kaiga". Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2002-12-07. Diakses tanggal 2015-12-27.  (Japan), May 2009. ISBN 978-4-499-22989-0

Video

• Quest for Sunken Warships: "Operation Hailstone", 2007, documentary, Military Channel, last aired September 30, 2010, 4-5pm MDT.

Pranala luar

• Crowl, Philip A.; Edmund G. Love (1955). Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls. United States Army in World War II - The War in the Pacific. Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army. CMH Pub 5-6. Diakses tanggal 2007-01-23. 
• Jeffery, Bill (2003). "War in Paradise: World War II sites in Truk Lagoon, Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia". Chuuk Historic Preservation Office. Diakses tanggal 2006-08-30. 
• Jeffery, William (November 2006). "A CRM Approach in Investigating the Submerged World War II Sites in Chuuk Lagoon" (PDF). Micronesian Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Volume 5. James Cook University, Townsville, Australia. Diakses tanggal 2007-01-23. 
• WW2DB: Attack on Truk
• Account of the operation from Enterprise website
• Moderately brief account of the attack
• TRUK LAGOON AREA STUDY