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	USS Tulagi (CVE 72)
		TULAGI (CVE 72) was laid down on 7 June 1943 at Vancouver, Wash., by the Kaiser Co., Inc., as FORTAZELA BAY (ACV 72); and redesignated CVE 72 on 15 July 1943.
		TULAGI's fliers conducted a devastating attack along the line of march of a German convoy which snarled the roads for miles around Remouline and crowned her achievements of the day by downing three German Ju-52s.
		TULAGI departed Guam on 21 February to conduct hunter-killer exercises in support of the assault on Iwo Jima before joining a task unit in area Varnish, west of Iwo Jima on 1 March.
	navysite.de /cve/cve72.htm (1359 words)

	Tulagi Battle
		Between 0725 and 0749, the Tulagi Communication Base notified the Commanding Officer of the Twenty-Fifth Air Flotilla at Rabaul that Tulagi was under bombardment, that the landings had begun, and that the senders were destroying all equipment immediately.
		So four hours after the raider landing on Tulagi, the parachute battalion made its frontal assault in the face of fire from an alerted garrison which was supported by fires from a flanking position.
		Simultaneously battalion commanders received orders to land their troops at Beach Blue on Tulagi and report to General Rupertus.[17] Upon arrival at the transport area off Beach Blue at 0730, the 3d Battalion was directed to pass to Gavutu, reinforce the troops engaged there, and seize Tanambogo.
	mylescfoxdd829.net /TulagiBattle.htm (4225 words)

	Tulagi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tulagi, less commonly Tulaghi, is a small island (5.5 km by 1 km) in the Solomon Islands, just off the south coast of Florida Island.
		A small 20-bed dispensary was operated on Tulagi until its closure in 1946.
		Tulagi is developing a tourism industry based on scuba; however, due to ongoing civil unrest, the industry in the Solomons is in a parlous state.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tulagi (474 words)

	Guadalcanal Campaign - Wikimedia Commons
		Cruising disposition of Allied warships and transports for the landingson Guadalcanal and Tulagi, August 7, 1942.
		Tulagi Island, Solomon Islands annotated vertical aerial photograph, prepared for planning purposes shortly before the island was captured by U.S. Marines on 7-8 August 1942.
		USS George F. Elliott (AP-13) burning between Guadalcanal and Tulagi, after she was hit by a crashing Japanese aircraft during an air attack on 8 August 1942.
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Guadalcanal_Campaign (3906 words)

	The Guadalcanal Campaign (David Llewellyn James)
		There was no ground on Tulagi or adjacent Florida Island level enough for an airfield, but on the obscure island of Guadalcanal a few miles to the southwest was a plain suitable for the developmentof an air base.
		In fact the decision to occupy Tulagi had already been taken when the Japanese airstrip was discovered, and knowledge of its presence ironically almost led to the offensive's being either abandoned - or at least postponed.
		Once the decision was made to take Tulagi the necessary forces were assembled in great haste, partly out of anxiety to seize the islands before the enemy strengthened their positions.
	www.angelfire.com /fm/odyssey/Guadalcanal.htm (5629 words)

	Invasion of Anzio
		The invasion force for Tulagi had six destroyers, which covered eleven transports, a number of converted minesweepers, two oilers and a repair ship, protected by a pair of light cruisers.
		The plan was to invade Tulagi on May 3, and Port Moresby on May 10.
		The Australians knew that Japanese were headed to Tulagi, and they withdrew their small garrison before the Japanese arrival on May 3rd.
	home.centurytel.net /amlegionlacrosse/coralsea.htm (3855 words)

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		After arriving at Norfolk on 17 June 1944, TULAGI got underway late in June for Quonset Point, R.I. where she embarked personnel, planes, and equipment.
		When landing began at Lingayen Gulf on 9 January 1945, TULAGI launched her planes for air strikes on land targets, anti-snooper patrols, and air cover for American vessels.
		The next day, TULAGI resumed her station off Okinawa, providing planes for air strikes called in by ground observers and for running photoreconnaissance and patrol missions.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/carriers/cve72.txt (1311 words)

	The Australian Merchant Navy \| MV Tulagi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		MV Tulagi was built by the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Co. in 1939, a twin screw motor vessel of 2281 gross tons service speed 12 knots length 254ft breadth 44ft.
		At that time MV Tulagi was en-route to Darwin where on her arrival the harbour was obviously congested with Naval and Merchant ships of all nationalities, some with passengers fleeing the Japanese southward advance, others with troops and equipment for the defence of Darwin.
		On 27 March MV Tulagi's voyage ended abruptly.Carrying fifty four persons(crew 16 Europeans, 26 Indian, 7 Malay and five gunners of the Royal Australian Navy) she was torpedoed somewhere in the Indian Ocean by the German Submarine U532.
	www.merchant-navy-ships.com /index.php?id=30,0,0,1,0,0 (1651 words)

	Conquest of Tulagi, 7-8 August 1942
		Tulagi, site of the British Solomon Islands' pre-war government center, and the nearby Tanambogo-Gavutu seaplane base were garrisoned by tough Japanese Special Naval Landing Force troops.
		Tulagi, about two miles long and several hundred yards wide, held about five hundred of the enemy.
		Tulagi lies off Florida Island and is important for its harbor facilities.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/events/wwii-pac/guadlcnl/guad-1c.htm (1079 words)

	Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu-Tanambogo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the same time that the landings on Tulagi and Gavutu-Tanambogo were taking place, Allied troops were also landing on nearby Guadalcanal, with the objective of capturing an airfield under construction by Japanese forces.
		In command of the 3,000 U.S. Marines set to land on Tulagi and the nearby islands of Florida, Gavutu, and Tanambogo was U.S. Brigadier General William H. Rupertus.
		Later in the campaign, Tulagi also became a base for U.S. PT boats that attempted to interdict Tokyo Express missions by the Japanese to resupply and reinforce their forces on Guadalcanal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Tulagi_and_Gavutu-Tanambogo (2825 words)

	TIME.com: The First Offensive -- Aug. 17, 1942 -- Page 2
		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.
		The 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.
		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.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,932761-2,00.html (756 words)

	Solomon Islands - The Malaita Massacre
		The Chinese, concentrated in Tulagi's Chinatown, left no known documents of the time, but they, too, must have been led on by myths of a prosperity that might have been possible decades earlier in the Australian gold tons but evaporate for most in the closure and isolation of the Solomons.
		At Tulagi, Elkington's hotel did a good trade all year round from the official and private visitors to the Protectorate Headquarters, and had overflow crowds at six-weekly intervals when the Burns Phip steamer arrived from Australia.
		That the rulers of Tulagi were seldom genuine products of the upper class made their pretensions to the niceties of status, on this far edge of Empire all the more strident.
	www.janesoceania.com /solomons_westwind/index.htm (5094 words)

	USS Nicholas First Person — Foster Hailey
		By this time the Japanese bombers were over Tulagi and Henderson Field to the east, and the searchlight beams were probing for them in the sky.
		It had been a long, nerveracking patrol out of Tulagi for the little corvettes, and this was their first chance to crow.
		The squadron anchored in Tulagi harbor for a conference among the captains and the commodore on the next day’s operations.
	www.ussnicholas.org /14savonights.html (4092 words)

	Guadalcanal
		The outposts at Tulagi and Guadalcanal were the forward evidences of a sizeable Japanese force in the region, beginning with the Seventeenth Army, headquartered at Rabaul.
		At Admiral Ghormley's headquarters, Tulagi's radio was heard on D-Day "frantically calling for [the] dispatch of surface forces to the scene" and designating transports and carriers as targets for heavy bombing.
		What the men on Tulagi, Gavutu, and Tanambogo and those of the Ilu had done was prove that the 1st Marine Division would hold fast to what it had won.
	www.nelsonresidence.com /steveneggie/guadalcanal.htm (17574 words)

	Harold C. Holden - Dogtag Found on Tulagi
		He is in a landing craft on his way to Blue Beach on Tulagi.
		A local Tulagi resident noting the interest being shown approached the group and offered something he had found while he was digging.
		After the fighting was over on Tulagi the Raiders transferred to Guadalcanal and it was on Guadalcanal that he noticed his dog tag was missing.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /people/veterans/holden.html (1165 words)

	HyperWar: History of USMC Operations in WWII, Vol. I: Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal, Part VI [Chapter 3]
		Monssen, opened up at a promontory of Florida Island, west of Tulagi, and 60 rounds were expended on the target between 0727 and 0732.
		TULAGI ISLAND, framed against the background of the larger Florida Island, is fire-swept from the hits scored by American carrier dive-bombers.
		[1] At 0625, Tulagi sent its message to Japanese stations to the north that an enemy surface force had entered the channel.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USMC/I/USMC-I-VI-3.html (4808 words)

	Noonsite: A two year stay at Tulagi Island
		Because of its good protection I anchored my boat in Tulagi Harbour next to Sasape Marine in the little cove on the north east side of the island.
		Tulagi Island is just south of Florida Island and about 20 nautical miles north of Honiara.
		Tulagi is a nice, historical place with some very beautiful local cruising and diving.
	www.noonsite.com /Members/doina/R2002-12-07-2 (258 words)

	Chapter 2: Plans for Invasion
		The Tulagi Fire Support Group and the air squadrons were also to bombard the southeast portion of Tulagi when the troops, advancing southeast from the landing beach, had reached the first phase line, about two-thirds of the way down the island.
		Tulagi had some trails, and a trail had been built through the coconut groves on the north coast of Guadalcanal, but the only inland passages were native footpaths.
		The grouping of forces for Tulagi and Guadalcanal was based upon the premise that of the 8,400 Japanese which the intelligence section believed to be defending the objectives 1,400 troops, including one infantry and one antiaircraft battalion, were in the Tulagi area.
	www.army.mil /CMH-PG/books/wwii/GuadC/GC-02.htm (12625 words)

	From Makin to Bougainville: Marine Raiders in the Pacific War (Tulagi)
		Most of the information on Tulagi would come from three Australians, all former colonial officials familiar with the area.
		Tulagi was 4,000 yards long and no more than 1,000 yards wide, and a high ridge ran along its length, except for a low, open saddle near the southeast end.
		The only suitable landing beaches from a hydrographic standpoint were those on either side of this low ground, since coral formations fringed the rest of the island.
	www.nps.gov /wapa/indepth/extContent/usmc/pcn-190-003130-00/sec5.htm (1403 words)

	Tulagi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		As we flew along the coconut palm clad coast with its iridescent blue sea and white coral sand beaches, fluffy white cumulus clouds wreathed the volcanic Kovo Mountains that extend the length of Guadalcanal.
		While waiting I found out that the performance was to welcome the Bishop of Melanesia who had arrived to attend the funeral of Father Gus Geve, Minister of Youth, Sports and Woman's Affairs who had been gunned down on Aug. 20th while on tour of his Sth Guadalcanal constituency allegedly by rebel leader Harold Keke.
		Tulagi Island is 5.5 ks long and approx 1 k wide and was the pre-war colonial capital of the British Solomon Islands.
	www.diveunderwater.com /newsletters/tulagi.htm (1105 words)

	Colorado Daily News
		While the vacant site of the 55-year-old former Tulagi bar and music venue is only one of the many issues facing the Hill this year, the complex division that proprietors and neighbors encountered this year in trying to transform the bar could serve as a metaphor for what the Hill faced in 2004.
		The year began with a darkened Tulagi, as the Colorado Department of Revenue seized the venue in 2003 after its tenants defaulted on $14,184 in tax debt.
		But for Tulagi, and the larger representation of the Hill, things are still uncertain.
	www.coloradodaily.com /articles/2004/12/20/news/news03.txt (750 words)

	One Man's View: Chapter 5
		Supply ships would enter Tulagi harbor under cover of darkness and dump their load of gasoline which was destined for the airplanes at Henderson Field as well as for the PT (motor torpedo) boats.
		The base for the PT boats was hidden under large trees at the far end of Tulagi harbor nearest Florida Island.
		While this procedure took about the whole Company on the Tulagi end, only a few of us were needed aboard the YP boat for the night crossing.
	www.peak.org /~skinncr/oneman/chapter5.html (3205 words)

	Cruiser Scout - CH 8
		It was a match between the two Japanese battleships, the Hiei and the Kirishima, with fourteen inch bombardment ammunition against our two heavy cruisers, the USS San Francisco and the USS Portland, with their eight inch armor piercing ammunition.
		Meanwhile back on the Island of Tulagi, at the first light of dawn, Lt. Thomas and I were in SOC-2 No. 9890 taxiing out of the Tulagi Island seaplane service area for takeoff.
		On the 18th of November, there was a destroyer that had lost the mid part of her topsides, the galley area being among the shot away portion, and an old Australian 300 ton merchant vessel that were leaving the Tulagi area for Espiritu Santos.
	www.cruiserscout.com /navy8.html (5078 words)

	NOAA History - A Nation at War/WWII/Pathfinder: Recollections of Those Who Served 1942-1971
		Tulagi Harbor was fairly large and almost landlocked.
		Three charts of Tulagi and two of Guadalcanal were made and printed and published on board the ship.
		James Baker had been detached in Tulagi to go home as his wife had passed away and his young daughter was alone.
	www.history.noaa.gov /stories_tales/pathfinder6.html (4374 words)

	Action Report: 7-8 August 1942
		During the operations involved in the occupation of Tulagi - Guadalcanal, the ENTERPRISE launched 237 aircraft on 7 August and recovered 230, and on 8 August there were 135 launchings and 136 landings.
		The fact that twelve 500-lb and two 1000-lb bombs on August 7, and twenty-three 500-lb bombs on August 8, were returned to the ENTERPRISE after having been held in the air over good enemy targets is offered in substantiation of this conclusion.
		It appears logical that the most desirable employment of air support for a landing force is immediate delivery of heavy caliber bombs on focal points of enemy resistance followed immediately by charges of our ground troops.
	www.cv6.org /ship/logs/action19420807.htm (2642 words)

	Conquest of Tulagi, 7-8 August 1942 (Part II)
		Fires burn near the Tulagi Cricket Grounds, after bombing by U.S. carrier aircraft on 7 August 1942, the day U.S. Marines landed to capture the island.
		Small islands in the foreground are (from the bottom of the view, running toward Tulagi, as identified on the original print): Songonangona, Kokomtabu and Mbangai.
		Tulagi town seen from a U.S. carrier aircraft on 7 August 1942, the day U.S. Marines landed to capture the island.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/events/wwii-pac/guadlcnl/guad-1c2.htm (457 words)

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