By Cadet Davis

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Coral Sea
By Cadet Davis
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The first air-sea battle in history and an
engagement in which the lead role was played by
aircraft launched from ships at sea, this battle
resulted from Japanese efforts to make an
amphibious landing at Port Moresby in southeast
New Guinea.
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Unknown to the Japanese, Allied codebreakers had
learned enough about enemy communications to
figure out Japanese plans in time for Allied
fleets to assemble in the Coral Sea.
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• This is our aircraft carrier that got hit by dive
  bombers.

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• This is a couple of American SBDs bombing a
  Japanese cruiser.

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This was one of our aircraft carriers that was
burning during the war.
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• Rear Admiral Frank J. Fletcher commanded American
  task forces, including two large aircraft
  carriers and other ships, and a British-led
  cruiser force mounted surface opposition. The
  Japanese used many more ships but divided them
  into a number of widely separated groups, one of
  which contained a light carrier. The Japanese
  covering force (led by Vice Admiral Takagi Takao)
  also contained two large carriers.

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• These are some of the planes getting ready to
  take off from the aircraft carrier.

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• When the battle ended the Japanese had lost.
• It is estimated that 17 out of 22 Japanese ships
  were sank.

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By Cadet Davis