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Japanese invation force lands in Port Moresby
A Japanese invasion fleet departed for Port Moresby, this incident started the Battle of the Coral Sea began -
Japan takes over Tulagi
On the day a smaller Japanese naval forces made an unopposed landing at Tulagi of the southern Solomons. A small force of Australian commandos and airmen who had garrisoned Tulagi evacuated the previous day, having been notified by coastwatchers that the Japanese were on a route there. -
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The Battle of the Coral Sea
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Three Aircraft Attack at the japanese forces in Tulagi
On the 4th of may Australia followed out three attacks at the japanese in Tulagi, The first attack sank the destroyer ship Kikuzuki and three minesweeper ships, the second attack destroyed two of the japanese sea-planes and damaged a patrol craft and the last attack sank four landing barges. One torpedo bomber was lost during the attack, while two of australias fighter planes were forced to crash land on Guadalcanal. -
Location of the Japenese
The Australians have finally found the Japanese invasion force heading to Jordan passage and Louisiade Islands -
Defence of Jomard Passage
Commander of the Allied Fleet, dispatched a group of cruisers and destroyers to cover the Jomard Passage, and moved north with his carrier force to contact and close with the main enemy fleet. -
Austrlian ships were send to Papua to wait and attack the Japanese
Australian ships were send towards Papua to wait for and attack the expected Port Moresby invasion fleet. Unknown by their Allies the main Japanese invasion fleet had turned back because the japanese knew that they were too vulnerable to land-based bombers without their air support of the Shoho -
Sinking of Shoho
Yorktown and Lexington sent their air force. They caught the Japanese unprepared and Japanese only having few planes in the air made it easy for the planes. Nine bomb hits and four torpedoes sank the Shoho within five minutes after the first blow was struck. -
Japanese invation force was found
Australia Allies planes spot the Japanese Covering Group escorting the invasion force. -
the battle started as japenese launched their first battle ships
That morning, Australia and amaricans scout planes reported sighting an enemy carrier, which was proven to be the Shoho ship, and four heavy cruisers off Misima Island. Unfortunately, they were misreported as "two carriers and four heavy cruisers". -
American confussion
Japanese land-based torpedo planes and bombers struck the force of Australian and American cruisers far to the west of Admiral Fletcher's carriers. Skillful ship handling prevented any damage to the Allied ships.
as well as adding to the general confusion, several Australia-based U.S. Army also arrived over the Allied ships and dropped their bombs, fortunately without hitting anything. -
The Attack on Shokaku invation force
The Australian attack on the Japanese invasion forces consisted of a fear amount of plains round about 70 and more planes from the Lexington and from Yorktown air carriers, so the full weight of the Australian plus American force attacked and fell on the Shokaku and the restof the japenese fleat and destroying it in minutes making the Japanese fall back and which then ended the battle of the coral sea -
Japenese airforce was destroyed
The Japanese launched 27 aircrafts under the cover of the morning darkness in the hopes of locating the Allied Task Force. Australian fighter plans drop in onto the Japanese planes, 3 Australian plains were shot down them and only six aircrafts of the Japanese made it back.
