Shigeyoshi Inouye1 May 1942
Ordered by Yamamoto to sieze bases in the southern Solomons & capture Port Moresby
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Ordered by Yamamoto to sieze bases in the southern Solomons & capture Port Moresby
Orders Inouye to sieze bases in the southern Solomons & capture Port Moresby
Captures the Island of Tulagi in the Coral Sea
The Shoho is sunk
Inouye is forced to call off his planned capture of Port Moresby in the Solomons
The air-sea Battle of the Coral Sea comes out as an tactical victory but strategical defeat for Japan
Calls off the plan to sieze bases in the southern Solomons & capture Port Moresby
Japanese expansion is stopped at New Guinea
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