Battle of the Coral Sea/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Battle of the Coral Sea.

Fought in May 1942, the first battle between naval forces built around aircraft carriers, in which the opposing United States and Japanese ships never saw one another; it was a tactical Japanese defeat and strategic U.S. victory