📍 It’s 1942, and Japan is on a mission to dominate the Pacific, zeroing in on Tulagi and Port Moresby as key footholds. With ...

During the battle of the Coral Sea, both the U.S. Navy and Imperial Japanese Navy were searching for each other’s carriers.

Here’s What You Need to Remember: America’s first fleet carrier had fallen fighting precisely the kind of battle it had spent over a decade developing tactics for. Just a year later,... Here’s What ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...