The silent wrecks of Kwajalein Atoll
Description
In an effort to win control of the Marshall Islands gateway to the Japanese empire, U.S. aircraft bombarded Japanese ships in the lagoon at Kwajalein for weeks. Later, this lagoon became the graveyard for WWII era airplanes and shipwrecks.
Runtime
71 min
Series
Subjects
- Waste disposal in the ocean (3)
- Documentary films (191)
- Shipwrecks (19)
- Coral reefs and islands (16)
- Lagoons (1)
- Kwajalein Atoll, Battle of, Marshall Islands, 1944 (2)
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
[2006], c2004
Database
Alexander Street
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