Pacific Ocean theater of World War II

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 259. Chapters: Battle of Midway, Guadalcanal Campaign, Battle of Peleliu, Battle of the Coral Sea, Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, Battle off Samar, Battle of Leyte Gulf, Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse, Operation Ke, Battle of Edson's Ridge, Battle of Savo Island, Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, Battle for Henderson Field, Battle of Cape Esperance, Actions along the Matanikau, Battle of the Eastern Solomons, Battle of Tassafaronga, Invasion of Tulagi, Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu-Tanambogo, Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, Carlson's patrol, Koli Point action, Matanikau Offensive, Battle of the Tenaru, Battle of Slater's Knoll, Operation Hailstone, Battle of Tarawa, Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109, Operation Ten-Go, Battle of Saipan, Bougainville Campaign, Battle of Rennell Island, Battle of the Philippine Sea, Solomon Islands campaign, Battle of Hongorai River, Battle of Piva Forks, Operation Vengeance, Battle of Tsimba Ridge, Battle of Makin, Battle of Kwajalein, Battle of Koromokina Lagoon, Makin Island raid, Typhoon Cobra, Ulithi, Battle of the Coconut Grove, Tokyo Express, German attacks on Nauru, New Georgia Campaign, List of Japanese hell ships, Mariana and Palau Islands campaign, Invasion of Lae-Salamaua, Action off Bougainville, Operation I-Go, Operation RY, Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, Battle of Vella Gulf, Landing at Nassau Bay, Japanese occupation of Kiska, Battle of Kolombangara, Battle of Guam, Battle of Pearl Ridge, Tami Islands, Drive on Munda Point, Raid on Choiseul, New Georgia counterattack, Landings on Rendova, Battle of Kula Gulf, Battle of Munda Point, Battle of Wickham Anchorage, Battle of Bairoko, Battle of Enogai, Battle of Blackett Strait, Battle of Cape St. George, Battle of Viru Harbor, Marshalls-Gilberts raids, Naval Battle of Vella Lavella, First Bombardment of Midway, AirSols, Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, Operation Cottage, Land Battle of Vella Lavella, Motor Torpedo Boat PT-337, Battle of Tinian, Koiari Raid, Battle of Eniwetok, Operation FS, Battle of the Green Islands, Operation Tan No. 2, Axis naval activity in New Zealand waters, Battle off Horaniu, Japanese occupation of Attu, Battle of Angaur, XXIV Corps, Landings at Cape Torokina, South Pacific Combat Air Transport Command, Remains of Taipei prison walls, Fast Carrier Task Force, The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, End of World War II in the Pacific, Operation Inmate, South Pacific Scouts, Operation Flintlock, Operation Scavenger. Excerpt: The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought from 4-8 May 1942, was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. The battle was the first fleet action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other. It was also the first naval battle in history in which neither side's ships sighted or fired directly upon the other. In an attempt to strengthen their defensive positioning for their empire in the South Pacific, Imperial Japanese forces decided to invade and occupy Port Moresby in New Guinea and Tulagi in the southeastern Solomon Islands. The plan to accomplish this, called Operation MO, involved several major units of Japan's Combined Fleet, including two fleet carriers and a light carrier to provide air cover for the invasion fleets, under the overall command of Shigeyoshi Inoue. The U.S. learned of the Japanese plan through signals intelligence a...