The Battle of the Coral Sea 1942: The First Aircraft Carrier Battle in History

To cut to the chase and skip all the preliminary actions of may 4-7, go to 18:43 to see the main carrier battle. Sources: Lundstrom, J. B. (2013). The First Team Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway. New York: Naval Institute Press. Lundstrom, J. B. (2014). The first South Pacific campaign: Pacific Fleet strategy, December 1941-June 1942. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. Stille, M. (2009). The Coral Sea 1942: The first carrier battle (Vol. 214, Campaign). Oxford: Osprey Publishing. Toll, I. W. (2012). Pacific crucible: War at sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942. New York: W.W. Norton. Willmott, H. P. (2008). The barrier and the javelin: Japanese and Allied Strategies, February to June 1942. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. No copyright intended, all Image rights go to: -Wikipedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ba... -Naval History Heritage and Command https://www.history.navy.mil/ Music: Marvel style cinematic music Description: https://www.youtube.com/c/NCMEpicMusic Inspiration: By Ender Güney Epic cinematic music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDSDM... King Description: https://www.youtube.com/c/NCMEpicMusic Inspiration: By Ender Güney Railway Description: https://www.youtube.com/c/NCMEpicMusic Inspiration: By Ender Güney Kevin MacLeod https://incompetech.com/ Ossuary 2 – Turn, Prelude and action, Interloper, Stormfront, Satiate - only percussion Licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution CC BY-SA 3.0 Epic and Dramatic Trailer Music by Ross bugden https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQKG... Warrior Strife - Jingle Punks https://youtu.be/UtfxylfFDPo