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DinahMoeHum

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1. Before this, the Imperial Japanese had failed. . .

Reply to Tanuki (Original post)

Tue Apr 11, 2017, 06:33 AM

Apr 2017

. . .to take Port Moresby by air and sea, having been turned back by the Americans in the Battle of the Coral Sea (May 4-8, 1942).

That battle was the first in the war where aircraft carriers were pitted against one another, and neither side's ships sighted or directed fire at each other. It was all an air battle at sea.

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