May 8, 1942 . . . In The Coral Sea
Part I: Scouts As darkness closed in around the Japanese and American carrier forces in the Coral Sea on the night of May 7, 1942, both knew that the other was very close. Admiral Takeo Takagi turned...
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The pilots from both the American and Japanese carrier forces knew that each force had been spotted at roughly the same time and that while they were attacking the enemy's ships, the enemy would be...
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The USS Lexingtion was the best prepared ship for the battle because of Captain Frederick Sherman's prediction that the Japanese air strike would arrive at 1100 hours (11:00 a.m.). The enemy first...
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About the same time that the American carriers were coming under attack the same thing was happening to the Japanese carriers 120 miles to the northeast. The Yorktown's dive bombers arrived over the...
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The strike from the Lexington experienced trouble from the start. While the fighters were still launching one Grumman F4F Wildcat got its tail chewed by the F4F behind him and had to be scratched from...
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At 1247 hours (12:47 p.m.) Captain Frederick "Ted" Sherman, of the Lexington, was still chuckling over Lieutenant Commander Healy's line about taking any additional torpedoes on the starboard side....
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After Two days of battle the scorecard read: 1 Japanese light carrier sunk and 1 Japanese heavy carrier heavily damaged; compared to 1 American heavy carrier sunk and 1 American heavy carrier...
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