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Posted on Mar 13, 2008 in History News

What If the Japanese Had Won the Battle of the Coral Sea?

Jim H. Moreno

What If the Japanese Had Won the Battle of the Coral Sea? (Blog Them Out of the Stone Age)

Many what-if scenarios are “close call” counterfactuals, in which the outcome pivoted on a single event that went one way but might easily have gone another. In the case of the Coral Sea, however, it is almost easier to explicate how the Japanese could have won the battle than to explain how they managed to lose it. . . .