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King on Offensive: Air assaults on the Japs at Tulagi and the Coral Sea battle of planes v. ships in May were actually the preludes to the Solomons campaign. But the Navy's air victory (with some Army help) at Midway was the real turning point: "Things began to break for us at Midway. We began to get the edge there. . . . After the Midway action we told ourselves: 'Now is the time to hit the Jap in the southwest Pacific...
...been getting word of the Jap's activity in the Tulagi area. He'd been there a long while, and when reports came in about that airfield on Guadalcanal it heightened our interest. If our attack had been delayed a week, the Jap would have been able to use that airfield...
...That campaign did two things. It made our own line of communications that much more secure, and it took something away from the Jap that he had had. The virulent, violent reaction was greater than we expected, so our attack must have stung him to the quick...
...campaign (TIME, Oct. 26), and that in this instance the U.S. command's insight into Japanese thinking and strategy had been none too keen. But his recital took nothing from the luster of the Navy-Marine-Army team's recent successes in clearing the Solomons waters of Jap ships and extending the land forces' hold on Guadalcanal...
Textbooks have been revised in accordance with Jap ideas on history, politics and ethics. Though some students and teachers have been arrested and tortured, "educators are ever being offered trips to Japan and 'Manchukuo' to see how the 'Friendly Neighbor' does things and to understand her intentions towards China...