Battle Of The Coral Sea Essay

Battle of the Coral Sea was one of the major battles that demonstrated the power and effectiveness of the Japanese military, and the work that U.S. had to put in to make their military better. This battle would make Japan empire expand around the pacific. Before the war has even started each sides of the battle had a plan for what they were going to do. Japan plans was to isolate Australia from the allies, and then invade the port city of Moresby. From this Japan now has the ability to have air power superiority over Australia. They even had the Imperial navy trapping all of the eastern flanks of New Guinea. This would make a perfect chance for japan to go to all of the south of the pacific and take over all of the area. For Australia they didn’t have a plan because they weren’t assuming that they were going to be attacked. The decryption center Station H.Y.P.O., which was run by Capt. Joseph, was were able to decipher the correct code to know what is exactly Japan was doing. Most of Japan’s codes were in books. Once this was figured out U.S. planned out to take out their ships like their carrier called the Lexington. U.S. already had a ship out there in the pacific called Yorktown. When they got there they joined up with Australia and then the battle just went off. The main part of the …show more content…
and Australia had lost this battle because one Australia didn’t even really have a good military in the first place even before the attack. They wouldn’t even had called this a battle if haven’t the U.S. came in and started to defend them. Second the reason why the lost because U.S. was more likely cocky coming into this battle, or they weren’t ready for Japan to be really serious and try to not let no one get in their way and take over what they felt like taken over. Another thing is that U.S. really didn’t us that much of their weapons that they had, because they assumed that this was going to be an easy clean sweep but Japan should them