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...cruisers, destroyers, troop transports, auxiliaries. The attacking pilots swore and yelled into their phones in excitement. Some of their targets sank at anchor; others, aflame, died on the harbor beaches. From three attacks that day, every U.S. plane returned to the mother carriers—the Lexington and another, unnamed—waiting 100 miles south of Tulagi with a covering force of cruisers and destroyers. _ Two mornings later, scout-bombers sighted a Japanese carrier-cruiser force, about 180 miles north of the U.S. force. Attacking U.S. pilots soon saw a standard Japanese naval pattern: a big carrier (the new, 50-plane Ryukaku) steaming...
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