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...blow was struck up from Down Under at the exotic Melanesian land of the Solomon Islands, a fringe of volcanic peaks strung for 600 miles across the northern end of the Coral Sea, 900 miles from Australia's coast (see map). It was no mere raid. It was an attack in force. The Navy was out to take the Solomons from the Jap-and with them the threat they held to the supply line from the U.S. to Australia, and to Australia itself...
...year naval career, Planner Ghormley's program for battle was a model of carefully thought planning, astute execution, use of every tool he had within reach. This time Douglas MacArthur in Australia knew what was afoot, as he did not in the Battle of the Coral Sea; he was enlisted by his opposite number in New Zealand to join in the first fully planned big-scale battle cooperation of U.S. Army and Navy in World...
Midway had been a great victory, the second naval victory scored against the Jap. In the first, the Battle of the Coral Sea (TIME, May 18), the enemy had been scattered and turned back as he tried to cut the communications lines of the South Pacific. At Midway the threat had been greater. Apparently Midway was to have been a way station. Pearl Harbor was the goal, and disastrous defeat of the U.S. in the Pacific was inevitable if Pearl Harbor was taken...
Like the Battle of the Coral Sea, Midway was a triumph of air power. Land-based aircraft from the island struck the first blow and gave the Jap enough to make him turn back. But carrier-based craft, launched as the Jap retired, did even greater damage. The carrier planes (plus Army Flying Fortresses) drove the Jap back into the shelter of the Mandates and the cover of thick weather with only the remnants of his mighty invasion fleet...
...enemy had been badly hurt, and he was ill-equipped to replace his losses at the rate the U.S. could. Sea power in the Pacific had been leveled in the Coral Sea; at Midway the balance-slight as it was-had gone to the U.S. Now the Jap, looking at new carriers coming off U.S. ways, at aircraft production he could not hope to approach, could worry...