Long before that fateful November day, the television landscape was crowded with inventors competing for the title to the ...

the greatest battle in the history of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. It was fought below the equator, in the Coral Sea off Australia’s northeast coast. For five days, smudged with belching smoke ...

However, as she passed through the Sealark Channel ... carnage of the Coral Sea, Yorktown powered toward the North Pacific and made history in perhaps the most decisive naval battle of the war.

Dawn Service at Anzac Park for 83rd commemoration of Battle of Coral Sea. US Seventh Fleet Band member Musician 3rd Class Christina Taralson. Picture: Evan Morgan “With all history, we always ...

The first USS Yorktown CV-5 has been resting on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean since 1942 and an expedition dive in mid-April revealed new secrets of the carrier's history. A discovered ...

To stand any chance of crossing the English Channel ... The Battle of Britain - the first major battle to be decided entirely by air power - began. Discover the past on History Hit with ad ...

a once-thriving coral reef system in Sabina Shoal, now reduced to a skeletal graveyard of broken, bleached fragments at the bottom of the South China Sea. The footage, shared with the media by the ...

Last week the fleet splashed into “bomb alley”—the narrow Sicilian channel ... Battle of the Mediterranean seems more important than all the previous naval battles of history. Sea power ...

In battle, she was to ... and run westward for the open sea. The Spanish ships put seaward at 8.45am the next day, but the US ships sighted them in the channel at about 9.35am, initiating the ...

Some of history's greatest and decisive battles ... action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other, the Battle of the Coral Sea, fought from May 4-8, 1942 in the Pacific, was a major ...