Navy pilot John Leppla was credited with shooting down five Japanese aircraft in aerial combat before he was shot down and ...

Sailors aboard the Navy’s forward-deployed aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan held a wreath-laying ceremony in commemoration of the WWII Battle of the Coral Sea on July 26, a year after the wreckage ...

May 8, 1942, Battle of the Coral Sea. Lieutenant Stanley "Swede" Vejtasa from Scouting Squadron FIVE (VS-5) in an SBD Dauntless, is in patrol over the aircraft carrier U.S.S. YORKTOWN (CV-5).

Shortly after the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo in April of 1942, the Japanese began planning for a decisive battle in the vicinity of Midway, to take place in June. The Coral Sea operation in May was ...

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View on the flight deck of carrier Lexington during the Battle of the Coral Sea. (U.S. Navy/National Archives) The next day, on May 8, 1942, the Battle of the Coral Sea reached its crescendo.