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Coral Sea-History's first clash of aircraft carriers. USN strategic victory; IJN tactical victory. Midway-USN's first decisive naval (battle) victory of WWII. Midway was also an aircraft carrier engagement; although submarines participated in the fight, sinking the destroyer USS Hammon and administering the coup de grace to the USS Yorktown.

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