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...fighting began Sunday, August 23, with a strong enemy air attack on Guadalcanal Island, in which 21 Jap planes from the Carriers were shot down with minor losses for the Americans. That night enemy destroyers opened fire on the Marines' shore positions on Guadalcanal...
...next day a great naval battle had been joined, in which both sea and air forces were taking part. Before Tuesday noon Army and Navy carrier-based planes had effectively bombed two Jap carriers, one battleship, several cruisers. One cruiser and one transport were left burning fiercely. Four hits had been scored on the larger Jap carrier by Army bombers. The smaller Jap carrier, the 7100-ton, 24-plane Ryuzyo, had been "severely damaged" by U.S. Navy aircraft...
...thing the defenders could be glad of was that the counterattack did not come even sooner than it did. By the time it came, the U.S. was in full possession of the excellent harbor at Tulagi. The Marines had the Jap's chief airdrome on Guadalcanal Island. They had driven the Japs from subsidiary airdromes and land bases on the others. Army bombers were already based on the captured airdromes with Naval and Marine planes. Island airports were "unsinkable carriers" and they gave the Americans a great advantage in the air-an advantage which became all the greater after...
...early in this second phase of the Battle for the Solomons for anyone to tell how well the U.S. forces were doing. But the Navy did say that the Army and Navy units backing up the U.S. Marines in the Solomons had been expecting the Jap counterattack. Americans who read the news could only hope that the commanders who foresaw the attack had also been able to bring up enough ships and planes to beat it off. The Japs could ill afford another reverse at sea like the Battle of Midway. And the Americans in their turn could ill afford...
...prongs which the Japanese had thrust into the breast of China began to wither and recede. China's heart still beat.The Jap appeared to be frustrated...