You’re reading this week’s At War newsletter. Although World War II ended nearly 75 years ago, the oceans are still giving up their secrets of where the dead fell. The lagoon there, long a tourist destination for divers, is still dotted with the wrecks of sunken ships and aircraft that have yet to be identified. The Times reporter Robert Trumbull filed several reports from the battle, which he observed from the bridge of a battleship under Vice Adm. Raymond A. Spruance’s task force. In one dispatch, he described a four-hour fight that resulted in enormous losses of Japanese ships and aircraft.

Source: New York Times February 21, 2020 14:03 UTC