| Entry Text: | THOMAS, David A. Japan’s War at Sea: Pearl Harbor to the Coral Sea. 222p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Deutsch, 1978. ISBN: 0233970118.
The story of Admiral Nagumo’s carrier striking force from January to May 1942. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, it attacked Rabaul, bombed Darwin, mopped up Allied forces in the East Indies, struck across the Bay of Bengal at Ceylon, and drove back the British Eastern Fleet, before returning to the Pacific to suffer its first real setback in the Battle of the Coral Sea. |
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