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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...
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...
Coral Sea. In the harbor of Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, the Jap ships lay like dozing ducks when Lieut. Commander Joseph Taylor, of Danville, Ill., saw them through the early-morning clouds. Over his inter-plane radio he called to the leader of a companion squadron: "Bill, you hit 'em high...
...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...