Learn how Japan failed to invade Port Moresby despite winning the Battle of the Coral Sea

Name: Learn how Japan failed to invade Port Moresby despite winning the Battle of the Coral Sea
Uploaded: 2020-02-24T08:00:00
Duration: 29 s
Description: In the Battle of the Coral Sea (May 1942), U.S. naval airplanes thwarted Japanese plans to occupy Port Moresby, New Guinea. From The Second World War: Allied Victory (1963), a documentary by Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.

In the Battle of the Coral Sea (May 1942), U.S. naval airplanes thwarted Japanese plans to occupy Port Moresby, New Guinea. From The Second World War: Allied Victory (1963), a documentary by Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.

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Transcript

NARRATOR: This was the first naval action in history in which surface ships never fired at one another. It was a battle between aircraft carriers and planes. Both sides were to suffer heavy damage. But the Japanese invasion of Port Moresby (New Guinea) was cancelled.