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from Australia.
Fletcher could hardly foresee this, however, and next day he located
the main Japanese force of two big carriers and attacked them at the
same time that they spotted and attacked him. It was the first naval
battle in history which was fought entirely by air and in which the
opposing ships never even sighted each other. One Japanese carrier was
put out of action; the other had its flight deck bent so that it could not
recover all its planes, many of which had to be jettisoned. But Yorktown
was scarred and the beloved Lexington so badly damaged that, after futile
attempts to save her, she had to be torpedoed by an American destroyer.
Though this gave the Japanese a tactical victory in the Coral Sea, they
had lost strategically. More important,
their two damaged carriers would not be present at the Midway battle.
For the check at the Coral Sea had not altered Japan's grandiose plans
for winning the war against America.
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