Battle of the Coral Sea - Pacific War #24 DOCUMENTARY

Kings and Generals' historical animated documentary series covering the Pacific War week by week continues with another video in the series. In the last few weeks, we have been covering the developments in the Burma Road campaign, as well as the decisive actions of General Joseph Stilwell. This episode will cover the battle of the Coral sea, the first strategic success of the Allies in the Pacific War.

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[doanphat]

Although the battle was overshadowed by the Battle of Midway, it's significance could not be ignore. Shōkaku was taken damage and have to be repair in the harbor, while Zuikaku, though being undamaged, did suffered a heavy loss of air group, meaning that she would remain in the harbor for replacement. As a result, both carriers would not participate the upcoming Battle of Midway

[SilentEcho]

My Great Uncle was on-board the Lexington when it was torpedoed in the Coral Sea. He survived, having jumped from the flight deck. He passed away at the age of 98 a few years ago. The night he died and before I heard knew he passed, I had found a video when they had found the Lexington and were exploring with a submarine. I was thinking about him when he died. It was sad and comforting at the same time.

[expandedhistory]

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

[captainhindsight]

My great granddad was admiral John Crace, the commander of the combined allied fleet in this battle, all who served did their duty well

[darkholmemega]

The Pacific War series has easily become a must watch for any WW2 buff.

[wolfbyte]

The story of the poor tanker, the Neosho, is actually pretty interesting. While her escort, the destroyer Sims, was sunk almost immediately, amazing damage control by the survivors of both the Neosho and Sims kept the big oiler afloat for four more days, before reinforcements arrived to pick them up and scuttle the doomed tanker.

[wolfu]

When the Japanese Carriers pulled back, they were left with just 22 Zero fighters, 8 divebombers and only 4 torpedoplanes. Out of an original force of 139 aircraft, only 34 remained. That's quite a hit when your training schools only produces about 100 naval aviators each year, not to mention the fact that many of the lost pilots were Pearl Harbor veterans.

When Yamamoto heard what had happened, he was livid, and ordered Inoue back into the Coral Sea, and to find and finish of the Americans, but as the video shows, they were long gone by that point.
Furthermore, operation MO was only meant to be a short campaign, with little or no Allied resistance. Instead, two of carriers meant for the upcoming Midway operation, had been hit so hard, in terms of ships damaged and loss of pilots, that they would not participate in any operation until the battle of Santa Cruz in October 1942.
All in all, I would say not a bad day for the Allies.

[nr]

Replied earlier by staff, Pacific War #23 will be posted later on! Thanks guys for keeping on your work rolling despite illness!

[omarbradley]

The Coral Sea was an example of both sides losing and winning a bit. It could be oversimplified into a Japanese Victory on the Tactical level, but an American Victory on the Strategical level. Nevertheless Shoho was an affrodable lost, the Lexington wasn´t, the operation MO was a partial sucess until the battle happen, yet it was decided during the battle who the Navy will not risk an attack on Port Moresby, thus the Army will have to do it on their own, starting the Kokkoda Trail Campaign, the Yorktown and the Shokaku were both left out of service after the battle. Yorktown was repaired as a desperate messure before Midway, while the Shokaku would be as a desperate measure after Midway.

[shantanutilak]

This is what we've been waiting for! Looking forward even more to the podcast

[tommonk]

Just one slight correction. Nimitz’s code breakers had only broken about 10-20% of the Japanese code. Being able to glean the Japanese plan from that little amount of information was the work of Navy intelligence. They are the unsung heroes of the war in the Pacific. But this video is an excellent summary of this battle.

[napoleonibonaparte]

Inoue and Hara: “This little manoeuvre is gonna cost us the war.”

[ericswain]

The top down animation is the clincher for me with this series. Peerless channel. Thank you for the history.

[PandaWolf]

The entire complexity of the War in the Pacific always gets over shadowed by the European Theater. And I’m so happy you guys are making these videos telling the Pacific Theater in its entirety.

[wtgardner]

As always, another brilliant episode has delivered great detail and wonderful graphics! This is a great battle that is often glossed over in favor of "More Important" battles. Thank you as always for providing such great videos!

[jackson]

Excellent video. In America I'm sure people would know a lot more about the battle of Midway than the Coral Sea. But in Australia the battle of the Coral Sea is the one we were taught in school.

[gregorypilau]

Great content as always. Thank you Kings & General for covering this part of history, am watching from Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬.

[Jobe-]

I love the name of the battle. Makes it sound mythical and fantastical.

[travezripley]

Check this out. My Grandfather was on the USS Lincoln, when it went down in the battle of the Coral Sea.
My father would tell me this story all the time.
This is me learning about it…. dad.

[ongodbruhlawd]

Lets gooo. After patiently waiting we finally got a Battle centered around Naval Warfare (the one ive been longing to see). Excited to see the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Battle of the Philippine Sea and Battle of Midway episodes.