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Series
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"By the beginning of May 1942, five months after the Pearl Harbor attack, the US Navy was ready to challenge the Japanese moves in the South Pacific. When the Japanese sent troops to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, the Americans sent the carriers Lexington and Yorktown to counter the move, setting the stage for the Battle of the Coral Sea. In Scratch One Flattop: The First Carrier Air Campaign and the Battle of the Coral Sea, historian Robert...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1942
Language
English
Description
In his book Stanley Johnston explains the strategy and significance of the entire Battle - what the Japanese were attempting to do - the importance of their defeat - of the far-reaching implications of the Battle on future warfare at sea. Like the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac, which brought about revolutionary changes in naval warfare, the Battle of the Coral Sea will go down in history as the epochal engagement which made traditional...
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