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Coral Sea

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Coral Sea
An arm of the southwest Pacific Ocean bounded by northeast Australia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. It was the scene of a U.S. World War II naval victory in May 1942.

Coral Sea
n
(Placename) the SW arm of the Pacific, between Australia, New Guinea, and Vanuatu
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Noun1.Coral SeaCoral Sea - an arm of the South Pacific to the northeast of Australia
battle of the Coral Sea, Coral Sea - a Japanese defeat in World War II (May 1942); the first naval battle fought entirely by planes based on aircraft carriers
Pacific, Pacific Ocean - the largest ocean in the world
2.Coral Sea - a Japanese defeat in World War II (May 1942); the first naval battle fought entirely by planes based on aircraft carriers
Second World War, World War 2, World War II - a war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Slovakia, Thailand) from 1939 to 1945
Coral Sea - an arm of the South Pacific to the northeast of Australia
Translations
Coral Sea [ˌkɒrəlˈsiː] n
the Coral Sea → la mer de Corail
Coral Sea n the Coral Seail mar dei Coralli
Coral Sea n the Coral Seail mar dei Coralli


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That same year, Richard was declared missing in action during the Battle of the Coral Sea.
The war in the Coral Sea and the Solomons, moving north through the Gilberts and the Marshalls, then to the Marianas and the Philippines is treated in summary fashion (4 chapters), with the stress on the shift in naval and air power between the protagonists.
Dunlop was flying an A-7E Corsair II from Coral Sea (CVB 43) on a bombing mission in North Vietnam when he was shot down by a surface to air missile.
 
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