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...course to Tulagi would have been perilous enough without the Jap to meet, for the waters around the Solomons are dark and mysterious to mariners. The best charts of the area are dangerously tentative in their locations of coral reefs and small islands, dangerously lacking in soundings off shores still unexplored...
Admiral Ghormley must have known generally what resistance he would meet. Tulagi was the scene of the Navy's first attack in the Battle of the Coral Sea, a blistering aerial surprise that caught a Jap force flatfooted, littered its tiny (one square mile) harbor with the hulks of nine or ten ships, including five cruisers. Since then, it had been regularly scouted...
...indication that the Marines who accompanied the fleet had obtained good footholds. But the Navy also said that "the enemy has counterattacked with rapidity and vigor. Heavy fighting is still in progress." In short, it was a ding-dong battle, with U.S. planes, presumably carrier-based, fighting land-based Jap planes, and troops of both sides fighting hand to hand...
...assist in changing the nation from a confusion of medieval feudal baronies to a united modern state." Moore came to them with no special training beyond his 20 years as a newspaper correspondent in Europe and the East. "I am an authority on general information" he told his Jap employers, and left it at that. He made a point of plain speaking to his bosses, combining truth with tact and he got along well with the diplomats, being, in his own archaic phrase, "in nowise timorous and also capable of jest...
...boys peeled off and dived, through murderous clouds of Zeroes and anti-aircraft fire. They sank the three Jap carriers. But the squadron never came back from the battle. Only one of the 15 pilots (and none of their gunners) lived to tell the tale- Ensign Gay and the team picture, released by the Navy last week, remained of Squadron...