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

At dawn on May 8, 1942, the Japanese fleet launched a search mission to locate the U.S. carriers, with aircraft deployed from various bases and accompanied by additional screening forces. By ...

"An Atlantic Monthly Press book." Preface, dated 1953, refers to corrections checked and collated "since the first edition." -- P. xi. Task organizations containing lists of American and Japanese ...

Machine generated contents note: i. The Political Situation in 1930s Japan -- Manchuria -- ii. Palau -- iii. Truk -- i. USA -- ii. Japan -- iii. US Preparations -- iv. The US Pacific Fleet Moves to ...