First Aircraft Carrier Battle
Here is the First Aircraft Carrier Battle in History The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought from 4 to 8 May 1942, was a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia, taking place in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. Sources: Lundstrom, J. B. (2013). The First Team Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway. New York: Naval Institute Press. Lundstrom, J. B. (2014). The first South Pacific campaign: Pacific Fleet strategy, December 1941-June 1942. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. Stille, M. (2009). The Coral Sea 1942: The first carrier battle (Vol. 214, Campaign). Oxford: Osprey Publishing. Toll, I. W. (2012). Pacific crucible: War at sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942. New York: W.W. Norton. Willmott, H. P. (2008). The barrier and the javelin: Japanese and Allied Strategies, February to June 1942. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press.