"Battle of Coral Sea" Topic
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Editor in Chief Bill | 04 Jun 2014 5:05 p.m. PST |
The Battle of Coral Sea, fought in the waters southwest of the Solomon Islands and eastward from New Guinea, was the first of the Pacific War's six fights between opposing aircraft carrier forces. Though the Japanese could rightly claim a tactical victory on "points," it was an operational and strategic defeat for them, the first major check on the great offensive they had begun five months earlier at Pearl Harbor. The diversion of Japanese resources represented by the Coral Sea battle would also have significant consequences a month later, at the Battle of Midway
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Saginaw | 06 Jun 2014 3:11 a.m. PST |
Funny, but I just recently dabbled in a little research on the Battle of the Coral Sea. The link below is to a page from a website that's devoted to Japanese naval aviation. This particular page contains color profile examples of some of the aircraft from the participating Japanese carriers, namely Shoho, Shokaku, and Zuikaku: link And here is Wikipedia's entry on it: link GREAT topic, Bill! |
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