U.S. Navy launched successful offensive operations in the Tulagi area according to the U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary dated 9 August 1942

An item reported that 0n 7 August the U.S. Navy launched successful offensive operations in the Tulagi area, Solomon Islands, Melanesia despite Japanese land-based aircraft and garrisons fighting back.

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Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 242 dated 9 August 1942.