图拉吉唯一的盟国军队是由古德(A. L. Goode)上尉指挥的澳大利亚陆军2/1独立连队的24个突击队,以及由皇家空军中尉皮根(R. B. Peagam)指挥的澳大利亚皇家空军(RAAF)的第11中队约25人。他们经营着一个在吉沃图 -塔纳姆伯格附近拥有四架PBY卡特琳娜海上巡逻机的水上飞机基地。 [16][18]附近的瓜达卡纳尔岛上也有三个盟国的海岸警卫队。海岸观察站的任务是报告他们观察到的任何敌人的行动或可疑活动。所有的海岸观察员均被任命为澳大利亚皇家海军志愿人员预备役,因为盟国相信这么做可以阻止他们因由驻间谍活动而被日本处死。他们由驻扎在澳大利亚汤斯维尔的埃里克·费尔德特中将指挥 [19]
Hackett, CombinedFleet.com, "IJN Minelayer OKINOSHIMA: Tabular Record of Movement," and IJN Seaplane Tender KIYOKAWA MARU: Tabular Record of Movement." Aircraft losses included two to four F1M2 "Petes" and one or two E8N2 "Daves" from Kiyokawa Maru and Kamikawa Maru.
McCarthy, South-West Pacific Area, p. 80, and Lord, Lonely Vigil, pp. 10–11; Jersey, Hell's Islands, p. 24. The first Japanese bomb raid on Tulagi took place on 22 January 1942 by one aircraft and occurred with increasing frequency and size over succeeding months. The damaged Catalina on 1 May was towed to Aola on Guadalcanal where Martin Clemens later destroyed it to keep it out of Japanese hands.
Feuer, Coastwatching in WWII, pp. 36–37. What Read probably saw were ships from either Goto's support force (Dull, p. 129 (map)) or Marumo's cover force (Lundstrom, p. 145).
Lord, p. 13; Jersey, pp. 58–60; Lundstrom, pp. 144–45. 3rd Kure troops involved numbered 398 and they were accompanied by an anti-aircraft detachment and some construction workers.
Lundstrom, Pearl Harbor to Midway, p. 168; Dull, pp. 126–27; Jersey, p. 62; Cressman, p. 86; Gill, p. 43; Parker, p. 27; Millot, pp. 43–45; Lundstrom (2006), p. 145. Cressman states that Shima's force was sighted by Australia-based U.S. Army aircraft from Darwin, Glencurry, and Townsville (Cressman, p. 84), but Lundstrom says that the sighting was most likely by a coastwatcher in the Solomons.
Frank, p. 31; Jersey, p. 98–112; Bullard, p. 121. The B-17s were from the 19th Bombardment Group (later called the 19th Bomb Group) and 11th Bomb Group. Japanese records indicate that two crewmen from a shotdown B-17 were captured by Japanese personnel from Gavutu on 5 August 1942 but, if so, the crewmen's fates are unknown.
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