![]() ![]() Ricketts ( Yorktown), engineering repair party, on 8 May (killed in action) ![]() Powers ( Yorktown, VB-5) for actions while attacking Shoho on 7 May at Tulagi, and on 8 May in while attacking Shokaku (killed in action) Navy historian Samuel Eliot Morison notes that “so many mistakes were made by both sides in this new mode of fighting that it might be called the Battle of Errors but more were made by the enemy, and he failed to profit by them.”įour Medals of Honor were awarded at Coral Sea: Thus, Coral Sea reduced Japanese carriers available for Midway by a third. Due to losses of pilots and planes, another carrier ( Zuikaku) also did not take part in that operation. Shokaku had been hit so severely that she could not join the Midway force. Although the Japanese had managed to capture Tulagi, Port Moresby remained in Allied control. However, with their air groups too battered to support a further advance, the Japanese were brought to a standstill. Allied forces were forced to withdraw from the operational area. ![]() The Japanese only lost one small carrier ( Shoho) and suffered damage to a fleet carrier ( Shokaku). The Japanese Imperial Navy sank USS Lexington (CV-2), USS Sims (DD-409), and USS Neosho (AO-23), and damaged Yorktown. Navy task forces and a combined U.S.Australian cruiser force with the Japanese Carrier Strike Force and supporting units resulted in a Japanese tactical victory. The resulting maneuvers and clashes between two U.S. The formerly classified combat narrative was originally published by the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) in January 1943 an HTML reproduction of the text is available in the Online Reading Room.
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