When most people think of the Pacific Theater of World War II, they envision tropical islands, heat, and jungle combat.

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Key point: America would learn some hard lessons during this fight. But they would hold their own and Imperial Japan would soon see the tide turned. In the first five months of the Pacific War, the ...

(WHTM) — It was the first sea battle in history where the warships never saw each other. The battle of the Coral Sea would be fought almost entirely by airplanes launched from aircraft carriers. As ...