Navies have been fighting upon the oceans for thousands of years; the Romans, Greeks, and later the British, French, Americans, Russians, Japanese, etc. At first with wooden ships powered by men at the oars, then cloth sails, then steam, then coal, then oil, now atomic energy. Men and ships always fought upon the seas, with bows & arrows, swords, muskets (rifles/pistols), cannons (guns), then later under water propelled missiles (torpedoes), and high powered large calibered rifles (12, 14, 16, and 18 inch guns). Then came the Battle of the Coral Sea; fought above the oceans; no ship or sailor shooting at one another...all battle performed in the skies above the Coral Sea. For the first time in man's history, a naval battle was being fought by flying machines.
The battle marked the first time that the relentless Japanese advance had been stopped.
It prevented the Japanese Invasion of Port Moresby at the cost of one US fleet carrier versus one Japanese light carrier and one destroyer which were sunk.
A slight boost in American morale when one of the US Navy pilot's radioed back, "...Scratch one flat-top!" America sunk it's first enemy aircraft carrier at the Coral Sea!
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Southern expansion ceased.
Short answer: Because it stopped the Japanese plans for the invasion of Port Moresby (south eastern New Guinea).
Nimitz had knowledge of the secret Japanese battle plans
USN decisive victory.The Americans decoded a radio message of the Japanese plans and ambushed them
The US Navy sank 4 Japanese aircraft carriers crippling the fleet and future plans for invasions.
The US Naval Communications Service OP-20-02 Station "HYPO" signals intelligence unit in Honolulu, Hawaii intercepted and decoded Japanese JN-25 radio messages of their pending military plans.
Short answer: Because it stopped the Japanese plans for the invasion of Port Moresby (south eastern New Guinea).
Both sides had ships damaged and sunk, and both withdrew their forces. The Japanese halted their plans to invade Port Moresby.
Darwin had been heavily bombed by Japanese Aircraft Carriers in early 1942. The Battle of the Coral Sea pretty well ended any further Japanese plans for expansion towards Australia.
For the Japanese Vice Admiral Shigeyoshi Inoue and Vice Admiral Takeo Takagi. For Australia Rear Admiral John Grace. For the US Admiral Framl Fletcher. Coral Sea was history's first clash of carriers. Since the Japanese sunk America's largest carrier at the time, the USS Lexington and the destroyer Sims, and lost only a light carrier; the Japanese won a tactical victory at Coral Sea. But since the Japanese scuttled their plans for invasion in that region, and turned back; it was a strategical victory for the USN.
Nimitz had knowledge of the secret Japanese battle plans
Nimitz had knowledge of the secret Japanese battle plans
USN decisive victory.The Americans decoded a radio message of the Japanese plans and ambushed them
USN decisive victory.The Americans decoded a radio message of the Japanese plans and ambushed them
US Naval Security Group OP-20-G intecepted the Japanese battle plans by radio and decoded them
The US Navy sank 4 Japanese aircraft carriers crippling the fleet and future plans for invasions.
The Japaneses naval code was broken by the allies, and imminent attack plans by the Japanese was decoded by the allies.
The US Naval Communications Service OP-20-02 Station "HYPO" signals intelligence unit in Honolulu, Hawaii intercepted and decoded Japanese JN-25 radio messages of their pending military plans.