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Battle of Coral Sea

Name: Battle of Coral Sea – United States factsheet records
Creator: World History Database

United States · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1942Date range

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Chronological records

1942

Franklin Delano Roosevelt8 May 1942

Coral Sea · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Japanese expansion in the Pacific is stopped off New Guinea

Names involved

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Provenance

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