The Battle of the Coral Sea was not "the greatest naval engagement in history" as the narrator stated at the end of the movie. It was the greatest naval battle for the United States in World War II up to that time; however, the British-German naval Battle of Jutland in World War I dwarfed this battle. What was important about the Battle of the Coral Sea was that it stopped the Japanese attempt to conquer Port Moresby, New Guinea as a stepping-off point for the invasion of Australia. Also, it was the first naval battle in which the opposing fleets never saw each other; rather, their airplanes did all the fighting.
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