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  • Thumbnail for USS Yorktown (CV-5)
    sustained after Coral Sea was considerable, and led to the Navy Yard inspectors estimating that she would need at least two weeks of repairs. However, Admiral...
    60 KB (7,568 words) - 22:40, 9 January 2026
  • Thumbnail for USS Hammann (DD-412)
    returned to Lexington's screen from this successful operation that night. On 8 May came the main action of the Battle of the Coral Sea, the first naval engagement...
    13 KB (1,271 words) - 14:48, 12 December 2025
  • Thumbnail for North Carolina Aquariums
    the creation of the Cape Fear Shoals tank, a 235,000-US-gallon (890,000 L; 196,000 imp gal) exhibit recreating the hard bottomed coral reefs off the coast...
    13 KB (1,467 words) - 18:25, 30 October 2025
  • Thumbnail for USS Mugford (DD-389)
    the water. After battle damage repairs at Sydney, from 16 September through December, she operated on patrol in the Coral Sea and along Australia's northern...
    13 KB (1,359 words) - 19:57, 12 December 2025
  • Thumbnail for USS Anzio (CVE-57)
    USS Anzio (ACV/CVE/CVHE-57), known as Coral Sea until September 1944, was the third of fifty Casablanca-class escort carriers built for the United States...
    48 KB (5,617 words) - 23:19, 23 January 2026
  • Thumbnail for Naval Base Eniwetok
    with over 488 ships. Enewetak (also spelled Eniwetok) Atoll is a large coral atoll with a lagoon circled by 40 islands in a 50-mile (80 km) circumference...
    35 KB (4,304 words) - 13:54, 18 January 2026
  • Caledonia, Fiji, and Samoa. This initiative was rebuffed at the Battle of the Coral Sea. The following month, at the Battle of Midway Japan lost four of the...
    180 KB (23,828 words) - 08:23, 9 January 2026
  • Thumbnail for USS Smith (DD-378)
    position in the screen with all serviceable guns firing. Action was broken off in the evening, and Smith headed to Nouméa for temporary repairs. She was patched...
    19 KB (2,503 words) - 01:08, 11 December 2025
  • Thumbnail for USS Anderson
    completion of repairs on 15 June, the destroyer sailed to the southwest Pacific. Following an escort run to Oro Bay, New Guinea, Anderson arrived off Cape Sansapor...
    50 KB (7,282 words) - 20:35, 18 January 2026
  • Thumbnail for USS Morris (DD-417)
    for Noumea, and into her first major enemy engagement, the Battle of the Coral Sea. Prior to the battle, she guarded the carriers of the task force as...
    9 KB (1,068 words) - 20:46, 14 December 2025
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Leyte Gulf
    Battle of the Sibuyan Sea, the Battle of Surigao Strait, the Battle off Cape Engaño, and the Battle off Samar) and several lesser actions. Allied forces...
    109 KB (13,838 words) - 01:24, 10 January 2026
  • Thumbnail for USS Portland (CA-33)
    the Coral Sea in 1942, where she escorted the aircraft carrier Yorktown and picked up survivors from the sunken carrier Lexington. She screened for Yorktown...
    38 KB (4,415 words) - 02:46, 10 December 2025
  • Thumbnail for Naval Base Ulithi
    base at Ulithi, taking advantage of the islands' geography: the Ulithi coral reef is about 20 miles long and 10 miles wide, with over 30 small islands...
    43 KB (5,206 words) - 13:55, 18 January 2026
  • Thumbnail for USS Hughes
    Japanese bases at Lae and Salamaua on 10 March 1942. Missing the Battle of the Coral Sea while escorting a tanker carrying fuel to Nouméa, Hughes reached Pearl...
    11 KB (1,317 words) - 20:00, 13 December 2025
  • Thumbnail for Portuguese India Armadas
    Primeiras Islands (off Angoche) for urgent repairs. The Primeiras are a long row of uninhabited low coral islets – not much more than mounds above the...
    116 KB (15,017 words) - 03:38, 2 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Biscayne National Park
    Florida Keys, formed from fossilized coral reef. The islands farther north in the park are transitional islands of coral and sand. The offshore portion of...
    89 KB (10,232 words) - 23:58, 17 January 2026
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Cape Esperance
    for security reasons. Boise was under repair until 20 March 1943. Although a tactical victory for the U.S., Cape Esperance had little immediate strategic...
    53 KB (6,408 words) - 08:27, 9 January 2026
  • Thumbnail for Mahan-class destroyer
    participated in the Battle of the Coral Sea. After that, propeller problems took her to New Zealand and to Pearl Harbor, where repairs were completed. While at...
    78 KB (9,206 words) - 23:33, 12 December 2025
  • Thumbnail for USS Taylor (DD-468)
    on 10 June south of San Cristobal. After repairs at Espiritu Santo, she served with the antisubmarine screen of escort carrier Sangamon (ACV-26) until...
    44 KB (6,233 words) - 14:34, 10 December 2025
  • Thumbnail for USS Wasp (CV-7)
    transferred to the Pacific in June 1942 to replace losses at the battles of Coral Sea and Midway. After supporting the invasion of Guadalcanal, Wasp was hit...
    56 KB (7,214 words) - 08:59, 24 January 2026