My Dad was on Guam during this Period, Read Below
Here comes another surprise... It was 1944 and the pictures were not available during the war. The US kept this place unknown to the citizens of the US. This is quite a story!!
This armada of ships and airplanes was poised for the invasion of Japan that never happened, because President Truman authorized the dropping of “A” bombs at Nagasaki and Hiroshima that resulted in the Japanese surrender.
Just think of the American lives that would have been lost had this invasion occurred. Be thankful that we had a President with the courage to make the call. Sadly most Americans today know nothing about this and the sacrifices made by those before us.
We are not teaching US history in our schools anymore.
Some great pictures of the Ulithi armada! US Naval armada deployed for invasion of Japan. Keep this for posterity. There will never be another assemblage of naval ships like this again.
Staging area for the invasion of Japan. Check out the carriers on "Murderer's Row."
If any of you folks had fathers, grandfathers or uncles in the Navy during World War II, they may well have been involved in this operation, given the tremendous number of the ships and personnel involved.
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Its existence kept secret throughout the war, the US naval base at Ulithi was for a time the world’s largest naval facility. BY GEORGE SPANGLER
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