The Shōkaku, lead ship of Japan’s powerful aircraft carrier class, played a critical role in several major World War II ...

The Battle of the Coral Sea was not a clash of a whole fleet against another whole fleet. It was a battle of relentless air bombing and the rapid parry-&-thrust of task forces.

The USS Lexington (CV-2) was recently found in the waters of the Coral Sea just 500 miles off the eastern coast of Australia. The aircraft carrier was scuttled following the Battle of Coral Sea in ...

The federal government recognises three American ships sunk by Japanese torpedoes in 1942 killing more than 600 men as having national historical significance.

The Coral Sea battle occurred between May 4-8 1942 in a series of naval engagements by US and Australian and Japanese aircraft against four groups of warships.