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The article provides world news briefs. The importance of the victory of the Battle of the Coral Sea in Australia against the Japanese army is discussed. The Allied occupation of Madagascar and the consequences if Japan had succeeded in taking it are considered. The periodical "New Republic" expresses its beliefs about the U.S. State Department's policy toward Vichy France.

The article chronicles the events that led to the Battle of the Coral Sea in the Pacific on May 7 and 8, 1942.

The article describes the events that occurred at the Battle of the Coral Sea, the first carrier-to-carrier attack that happened May 7, 1942 in the waters southwest of the Solomon Islands and eastward New Guinea.

Editorial. Comments on the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway in 1942. Information on Operation MO; Information on the carrier Lexington which was lost by the United States.

Presents an historical view of how the U.S. Navy's aircraft carriers became a naval weapon. Loss of much of the fleet at Pearl Harbor; How carriers were all out to sea at time of attack; Coral Sea, the first aircraft only naval battle; Details.