Battle Of The Coral Sea - Part 8

and occupy Port Moresby in New Guinea and Tulagi in the southeastern Solomon Islands. The plan to accomplish this, called Operation Mo. On May 3 and 4, Japanese forces successfully invaded and occupied Tulagi. Several of their supporting warships were surprised and sunk or damaged by aircraft from the US fleet carrier Yorktown. Japan know knew the US carriers were in the Solomon Islands area. The Japanese task force now entered the Coral Sea to engage and destroy the US fleet. This was ...
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