Word: tulagi
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...Japs kept coming. By last week they had lost at least 22 ships in the Solomons area. Between Aug. 7 and Sept. 15 they lost 165 planes. They concentrated their aerial bombing on the captured Guadalcanal air base. In northern Tulagi Island Jap troops which escaped death or capture (450 were captured) were joined by night landing parties. The Marines clearly were under heavy and growing pressure. It was up to the Navy, which had started the Solomons show, to finish it. The battle for the occupied portion of the Solomons was by no means over...
...morning as bright as a picture post card, a Japanese carrier force of some 40 warships-three carriers, two battleships, 15 to 20 light and heavy cruisers, with destroyers, seaplane tenders, gunboats and transports-appeared north of Tulagi, approaching in a great arc spread out over almost 1,700 miles of the tropic sea. U.S. ships and U.S. planes went out to meet...
...persistent Japanese returned and under the cover of darkness put men and supplies ashore on the northern tip of Guadalcanal, to reinforce their guerrilla bands in the interior. Day after day, vengeful Jap bombers with their fighter escorts drummed overhead, dropping their explosives. Even submarines crept in close to Tulagi, tried to shell the Marines...
...Marines were still killing Japs in the Solomons (see col. 1) when a smaller Marine detachment raided tiny Makin Island, 1,250 miles northeast of Tulagi. Under tall, battle-hardened Lieut. Colonel Evans F. Carlson and his second-in-command, Major James Roosevelt, they killed at least 80 Japs, destroyed two seaplanes and a radio station, looked on while Jap bombers from a nearby island pounded what was left of their own men and installations. Then the Marines retired...
North from Tulagi lie Jap bases which the U.S. and Australian forces will need soon to clean out: all the airdromes, troop centers and anchorages in the upper Solomons, within easy range of the Marines' southern toehold. The job even then would not be finished. For the Japs' great concentration point at Rabaul in New Britain would still be dangerously close-660 miles from Tulagi, 200 from Bougainville. The Japs would even then still be in upper New Guinea, a scant 350 miles from Rabaul. Above Port Moresby last week, an Australian force (with some U.S. troops...