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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Brooke on May 07, 2010, 04:38:44 PM
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This Day in WWII: Saturday, May 8, at 3 pm ET in Special Events II arena. All are welcome.
Join us to commemorate the Battle of the Coral Sea, which ended on May 8, 1942.
Coral Sea was one of the most-important naval battles between the allies and Japan. It was the first major naval battle following the attack on Pearl Harbor, was the world's first carrier-vs-carrier battle, and was the first battle between Japan and the US where the US was not routed.
The carriers in the battle were the USS Lexington and Yorktown, both fleet carriers, and on the IJN side, the fleet carriers Shokaku and Zuikaku and the light carrier Shoho. Lexington and Shoho were sunk, and Yorktown and Shokaku were heavily damaged.
As a result of the battle, Japan cancelled its invasion of Port Moresby, which it desired as a staging point for an invasion of Australia.
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Ill Try My Best :salute
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Two films of Coral Sea made last year:
http://www.lgmfilms.net/AH/Films/CoralSea.zip (http://www.lgmfilms.net/AH/Films/CoralSea.zip)
http://www.lgmfilms.net/AH/Films/SayonaraVTS.zip (http://www.lgmfilms.net/AH/Films/SayonaraVTS.zip)
The 48 star flag is a great touch in the bannor as with the rest of the images inside it.
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I think I will have to patrioticly get up at 4.30am and defend my country.
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I don't believe the Lexington was sunk. Its stationed in Corpus Christi Texas.
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I don't believe the Lexington was sunk. Its stationed in Corpus Christi Texas.
Different Lady Lux
http://www.angelfire.com/tx5/usslexington (http://www.angelfire.com/tx5/usslexington)
Pic of Lady Lux at Coral Sea
(http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/g10000/g11916.jpg)
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I don't believe the Lexington was sunk. Its stationed in Corpus Christi Texas.
True and yet you can find many articles online saying it was sunk. huuummm confusing!
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whats the a/c matchup?
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f4f, sbd, tbm vs. a6m2, b5n, d3a
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The USS Lexington in C.C. Texas is the second Lexington. She is an Essex Class CV commisioned in 1943. The Lady Lex commisioned in 1927 was sunk in the battle of Coral Sea.
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Thanks to all who played.
I had a blast and hope all of you did, too.
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darn missed it :(
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Can't wait for your screen shots, Brooke.
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Thanx Brooke us members of vf15 had a very good time
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Aww, sorry I missed this, the scenario we ran a little while ago was a blast.
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Can't wait for your screen shots, Brooke.
Howdy, Denholm.
The pictorials are a lot of work, and I end up doing them only for scenarios.
I did have a lot of fun in this event. I flew B5N's for the glory of Imperial Japan, and got a couple of torps into evil American carriers.