Scratch one flattop : the first carrier air campaign and the Battle of the Coral Sea / Robert C. Stern.

"By the beginning of May 1942, five months after the Pearl Harbor attack, the US Navy was ready to challenge the Japanese moves in the South Pacific. When the Japanese sent troops to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, the Americans sent the carriers Lexington and Yorktown to counter the move, setti...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Twentieth-century battles.
Main Author: Stern, Robert C. (Robert Cecil), 1946- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, [2019]
Series:Twentieth-century battles.
Subjects:
Coral Sea, Battle of the, 1942.
World War, 1939-1945 > Naval operations.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Pacific Ocean.
World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations.
Aircraft carriers > History > 20th century.
Aircraft carriers.
Military campaigns.
Military operations, Aerial.
Military operations, Naval.
Pacific Ocean.
Pacific Ocean > Coral Sea.
1900-1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:316 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Variant Title:
First carrier air campaign and the Battle of the Coral Sea
Format: Book

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