During the Battle of the Coral Sea, a damaged Aichi D3A returned from combat with its fuel nearly exhausted. Spotting what ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: America’s first fleet carrier had fallen fighting precisely the kind of battle it had spent over a decade developing tactics for. Just a year later,... Here’s What ...

Introduction -- 1. Part 1. Winning the unwinnable war (1936-December 1941) -- Part 2. South to Rabaul (1 January-20 February 1942) -- 2. Beyond Rabaul (21 February-10 March 1942) -- 3. Setting the ...

The Battle of the Coral Sea represented a new chapter in the history of naval warfare: for one, the fight was led by aircrafts, with neither the U.S. or Japanese navies ever coming in contact. From ...

On May 8th, 1942, during the Battle of the Coral Sea, Lieutenant Stanley "Swede" Vejtasa and his rear gunner Frank B. Wood were flying a routine patrol from the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown when they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When one thinks of U.S. Navy aircraft carrier operations in the months leading up to the Battle of Midway, one name that readily ...