Word: tulagi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bull's-Eye. Ghormley's first objective was soon announced. It was Tulagi, one of the best harbors in the Solomons, which the Jap had held since early June for his Indies defensive screen and for a jump-off place if he should decide to head south across the Australian supply line again...
...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...
United States Marines are locked in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese in the Tulagi area of the Solomon Islands, above Australia, where they stormed ashore a few days ago, Marine Corps headquarters announced in Washington Tuesday...
...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 astern of two cruisers...