The Battle of the Coral Sea, from 4 to 8 May 1942, was a major naval battle between the Imperial

Japanese Navy and naval and air forces of the United States and Australia. The battle was fought in
the air then on sea. The leaders for the battle were Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN, Admiral
Frank J. Fletcher, USN.,Vice Admiral Sir John G. Crace, RAN.,Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, IJN.
1,074 were killed durint the battle about 1,00 were on each side of the battle. The four-day
engagement was a strategic victory for the Allies. The battle, which U.S. Adm. Ernest J.
King described as “the first major engagement in naval history in which surface ships did
not exchange a single shot,” foreshadowed the kind of carrier warfare that marked later
fighting in the Pacific War.