WW2 · BATTLE SITE · 1942

Battle of the Coral Sea (1942)

On the WW2 map as “Coral Sea”

May 1942 — Aircraft carry the fighting in the first naval battle in which the opposing fleets never see one another. Japan’s seaborne advance on Port Moresby is stopped.

When: May 1942
Type: Battle site
Chapter: Battle of Midway (chapter 8 of WW2)
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Map showing Battle of the Coral Sea (1942), battle site in The War Room — WW2, 1936–1945 — BATTLE SITE · THE WAR ROOM — WW2, 1936–1945

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · US Army Center of Military History — American Military History, The War Against Japan · US War Department — Atlas of the World Battle Fronts (1945) · Cliopatria v0.2.1 — dated political boundaries · Natural Earth — physical reference geography

Source details

Office of the Chief of Military History,1969, chapter23. Official US Army text and maps; public domain
United States War Department, General Staff,1945. US Army official work; public domain
Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY4.0 · Dated polity and constituent territory selections; campaign-dependent occupation overlays reconstructed separately.
Natural Earth. Public domain

The separately published Tibetan polity remains neutral. The authored modern-China interaction region does not make Tibet a Chinese battlefield or Allied-controlled territory.

The dates of published political outlines retain the resolution available in their sources. Military fronts and operational perimeters have their own source and method records.

reconstruction: 1936–1937 · reconstruction: 1936–1937 source state · reconstruction: 1942 · reconstruction: 1942.4 · reconstruction: May1942 regional campaign perimeter · vector: 1890–1978 · vector: 1890–2023 · vector: 1939–1943 · vector: 1939–1946

Layer records and reconstruction methods