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Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942...
Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942...
Item # 721636
May 09, 1942
MARION EVENING POST, Illinois, May 9, 1942
* Battle of the Coral Sea victory ?
* Imperial Japanese verses U.S. Navy
* Pacific Ocean theater
The front page has a nice banner headline: "U. S. AND JAPAN BOTH CLAIM VICTORY" with subhead. (see images) NIce for display.
Believed to be complete as a 4 pages issue, light toning and minor wear at the margins, a little rubbing within the headline, generally nice.
AI notes: On May 9, 1942, both the United States and Japan issued claims about the outcome of the Battle of the Coral Sea that reflected their differing perspectives and propaganda aims. The U.S. framed the engagement as a strategic victory despite suffering the loss of the carrier USS Lexington and damage to USS Yorktown, emphasizing that the battle had halted the Japanese seaborne advance on Port Moresby, thereby protecting Australia and weakening Japan’s carrier strength for future operations like Midway. Japanese reports, particularly via Radio Tokyo and contemporary newspapers, initially claimed a more decisive success, exaggerating U.S. losses by asserting that two carriers and a battleship had been sunk, though in reality only Lexington was lost and Yorktown damaged; from a tactical standpoint, they had inflicted significant damage, but strategically, the battle forced them to abandon or delay their invasion plans. Historians now largely agree that while Japan achieved limited tactical gains, the overall strategic outcome favored the Allies, marking Coral Sea as the first major check on Japanese expansion in the Pacific, even if on May 9 contemporaneous Japanese claims suggested otherwise.
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