The population of Tulagi is 1,750.

The Japanese were trying to invade Tulagi of the Solomon Islands and Port Moresby of New Guinea prior to the Battle of the Coral Sea.

The Japamses Imperial Navy had belived that the US. Fleet would attack the empire from the southeast, toward the triangle connecting Port Moresby, Tulagi, and Rabaul. If the Japenese would be able to launch regualr air seachers in the South Coral Sea, they would have suitable time to hinder any Allied nanal approach.

Neither the US or Japanese fleets were ever in sight of each other . The first indication of the American fleet was when aircraft from the carrer Yorktown attacked Japanese ships supporting the Japanese invasion of the island of Tulagi which precipitated the entry of the Japanese armada into the Coral Sea to search for the US Fleet with the intent to defeat Allied naval forces located there .

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