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Old 07-31-2022, 02:10 PM
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Don, you may like my new/latest free/educational print-and-play little microgame Postcard Coral Sea

Shokaku, Zuikaku, and Shoho ... and Yorktown (the Japanese didn't expect, as was the case later at Midway) and Lady Lex are in it ... although the Allies may/50% NOT get Yorktown.


An overlooked battle is Fletcher's October 1942 Eastern Solomons, which he won with Japanese light carrier Ryujo sunk, albeit moderate damage to Enterprise.
Of course, he would be nonetheless relieved for pulling his carriers away from Guadalcanal in early August, forcing Turner to end unloading supplies to the Marines which soon made it Starvation Island.


Guadalcanal historian Richard Frank and others dismiss the battle as not being decisive or strategic, but it certainly was, preventing the Japanese from descending en masse on the island.
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