The Battle of the Coral Sea:
The Battle took place in 1942. It started May 4th and ended May 8th. It was a naval battle fought in between Australia and New Guinea. It was a battle between Japan and the USA. This battle was the first time aircraft carriers fought each other.
The Japanese objective was to invade Port Moresby in New Guinea and Tulagi in the southeastern Solomon Islands.This was called "Operation MO." Japan had a lot more infantry than the US did. The US sunk a light Japanese carrier then the Japanese damaged a US destroyer. The battle kept going on like this until they both have lost a lot of ships and aircrafts so they both left the battle area.
Japanese won technically because they sunk more ships and destroyed more aircrafts. But the Japanese had more death casualties.
I thought the battle wasn't very big and didn't last very long. US and Japan both lost a lot of people and ships and aircrafts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Coral_Sea
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Brief overall.