On the desk in the breezy, rambling headquarters building in Pearl Harbor Navy Yard lay charts, reconnaissance reports, intelligence advices. These charts, reports, advices were the hither end of a ...

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“The Battle of the Coral Sea is not getting the level of recognition it deserves from the government,” he said. “It was equally as important as Kokoda and Gallipoli.” Mr Johnson, from Canberra, said ...

Introduction -- 1. Part 1. Winning the unwinnable war (1936-December 1941) -- Part 2. South to Rabaul (1 January-20 February 1942) -- 2. Beyond Rabaul (21 February-10 March 1942) -- 3. Setting the ...

At dawn on May 8, 1942, the Japanese fleet launched a search mission to locate the U.S. carriers, with aircraft deployed from various bases and accompanied by additional screening forces. By ...

In a series of engagements of the United States and Australian Navies against the Imperial Japanese Navy from May 4-8, the Japanese experienced their first failure of a major engagement since they ...

The carrier took a beating and served admirably. In the first five month of the Pacific War, the Imperial Japanese military won an almost uninterrupted string of victories, seizing Burma, Indonesia, ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Battle of the Coral Sea represented a new chapter in the history of naval warfare: for one, the fight was led by aircrafts, with neither the U ...

U.S. Navy Seaman 2nd class Ross Covina shipped off to serve in World War II in 1941, and never came home. Now his last living ...