Admiral Fletcher and Admiral Turner in a Meeting in Washington, DC

Author robert lecky, in challenge for the pacific describes a meeting between admiral turner and marine corps general vandegriff. Admiral gormly doesn't even attend; he sends somebody else. This is going to become the standard script for the rest of the pacific war's island campaigns. They will learn a lot of lessons. But the basic ten plate and sort of style stays the same. You have the offshore a ships shooting first at the beach head. Then you bring in the planes, which they duly do,. who strafe and bomb the beach and drop colored smoke any place they think, i warrant a little extra attention. And then the transports come