The Battle of the Coral Sea - Part 1 - Animated

A large Japanese naval operation is launched to take the strategically important Port Moresby. Japanese and US Carriers play a dangerous cat and mouse game, both trying to find and strike each other without themselves being found.

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[willbxtn]

It amuses me how many of these stories start with "however, American/British code breakers...".

Germany: "This is the plan. Got it?"
Japan: "Yep, cool"
Italy: "Yep, cool"
US/UK: "Yep, cool"

[khoinguyen]

Task Force 17: This is an attack.
Shoho: Dear god.
Task Force 17: There's more.
Shoho: No...
(Hits her 21 more times)

[Fegnugggett]

The more I watch these videos, the more I realize how accurate the Battleship board game is

[bradymenting]

the most confusing thing about this battle is that the American Mk 14 torpedoes actually managed to sink something

[LaconicKibitz]

When you're not sure if the burning, flooding light carrier is gonna sink, so you triple and quadruple tap it just to be sure.

[poethepenguin]

It's amazing how the Pacific war reshaped the concept of naval warfare. Essentially overnight most traditional naval tactics became obsolete and the strategy became centered around these massive games of hide and seek. Find the carriers, and send everything you can possibly send to kill them. Do that, and you win.

[briangarvey]

This Illustrated to me better than any other lesson I've had so far the amount of confusion and blind stabbing in the dark that led up to this battle, which none of the time could have known was so pivotal.

[Drendude]

I am laughing very hard at wave after wave of aircraft attacking the T17 Support Group, and the last wave is actually US bombers, like the confused looking around scene from Pulp Fiction.

[Broomtwo]

Being an Admiral leading a task force in this situation sounds like the most stressful thing imaginable. So many decisions to make, so much information coming in (often inaccurate), and any wrong decision can spell doom for the task force or even doom for their country's efforts in the theater.

[bushpilot]

What a lovely surprise on a Saturday afternoon.

[General-HD]

There is also the fact that the Japanese aircraft mistakenly thought Yorktown was a friendly air carrier later in the battle.

[diestormlie]

This situation seems just... So utterly farcical. Everyone's missing everyone else, the two sides being 70 miles apart and never knowing... I can only imagine that there was lots of swearing once all the After-Action Reports were compiled.

[napoleonibonaparte]

Those carrier planes overkilling the Shoho just want the assists.

[kostakatsoulis]

God damn, Shoho is the ultimate case of "Stop, its already dead!"

[ATOPGaming]

imagine the feeling of your CO telling you that you just cost the United States 2 carriers. I dont even want to imagine that feeling

[HealthySkepticism]

Wow, the new animation of carrier aircraft launches looks really sharp!

[Danspyst]

Ah. The Battle of the Coral Sea. Also known as the naval version of "It is a Tiger!"

[CamoTheGuy]

Meanwhile, the ablazed crew on the Shōhō: This is fine

[Tekisasubakani]

Wow, the IJN Shoho wasn't sunk, it was slaughtered. Interesting to see the TBD's did accomplish something of note before the butchery at Midway.

[ramal]

Imagine you're a sailor operating on flight deck of Yorktown or Lexington and see Japanese planes tried to land on your ship