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Although World War II ended nearly 75 years ago, the oceans are still giving up their secrets of where the dead fell. Last week, the private group Project Recover announced that it had found three U.S. Navy warplanes lost during the February 1944 battle for the island of Truk (now known as Chuuk) in the Pacific Ocean. 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. “After sinking four and possibly five enemy warships within sight of the Truk Islands,” Trumbull wrote, “the small but powerful striking force of which this brand-new battleship is a unit boldly circled the atoll last night, interposing ourselves between Truk and Japan.”