View on the flight deck of carrier Lexington during the Battle of the Coral Sea. (U.S. Navy/National Archives) The next day, on May 8, 1942, the Battle of the Coral Sea reached its crescendo.

May 8, 1942, Battle of the Coral Sea. Lieutenant Stanley "Swede" Vejtasa from Scouting Squadron FIVE (VS-5) in an SBD Dauntless, is in patrol over the aircraft carrier U.S.S. YORKTOWN (CV-5).

Shortly after the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo in April of 1942, the Japanese began planning for a decisive battle in the vicinity of Midway, to take place in June. The Coral Sea operation in May was ...

Sailors aboard the Navy’s forward-deployed aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan held a wreath-laying ceremony in commemoration of the WWII Battle of the Coral Sea on July 26, a year after the wreckage ...

Not far beneath the surface of the Coral Sea, where the Great Barrier Reef lives, parrotfish teeth grind against rock, crab claws snap as they battle over hiding spots, and a 600-pound grouper ...

the framework of the coral reef is filled with sediment and cemented with calcite and aragonite. If sea level changes, the reefs become exposed to corrosive rainwater that dissolves the unstable ...