Word: tulagi
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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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...
...bombs hit New Guinea's Port Moresby, ahead of advancing jungle troops. (see p. 19) Toward the east, along the line the Japs might follow toward New Zealand or eastern Australia, more bombs struck Tulagi in the Solomon Islands. Jap scouts hovered over Australia's northeastern tip and the islands of the Torres Strait. U.S. P-40s based at Darwin met attacking bombers and fighters, knocked several from the sky. Jap warships were reported here & there on the approaches to Australia, but either the reports were mistaken or the Japs were feinting, feeling for Allied naval weakness...