Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Battle of the Coral Sea

Also searchable as Battle Of Coral Sea, Coral Sea Battle.

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  1. Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:03:48Delaying Midway gives the Essex program time to matureQ&A
  2. America goes Big Cruiser in the 1930s: Ending the Naval Treaties for the Alaska Class
    35:32Why newly commissioned battleships could miss the next battleNotable Point
  3. America goes Big Cruiser in the 1930s: Ending the Naval Treaties for the Alaska Class
    1:10:15A Coral Sea escort counterfactualChapter
  4. Forging the Kido Butai's Teeth: Imperial Japanese Aircraft Development from Hosho to Pearl Harbor
    1:11:36Would stronger Zero engines change the early carrier battles?Q&A
  5. Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:25:55Earlier Japanese scouting before the Battle of the Coral SeaQ&A
  6. Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:32:50Pearl Harbor delayed until the carriers returnQ&A
  7. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War
    4:30:34What Béarn copies would do to Japan's carrier offensiveQ&A
  8. What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?
    1:19How the Royal Navy studied American Pacific battlesChapter
  9. What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?
    5:52Coral Sea logistics and the fast-tanker shortageChapter
  10. What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?
    10:26Tulagi's high ammunition cost for limited resultsNotable Point
  11. What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?
    15:47Why high-altitude dives obscured Coral Sea targetsNotable Point
  12. What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?
    17:24The US Navy's precarious position before MidwayChapter
  13. What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?
    29:23The cost of uncoordinated Midway air attacksChapter
  14. Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:47:03Midway after losing Lexington and Yorktown at Coral SeaQ&A
  15. If Force Z survived... if HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse what would the RN have done with them?
    1:15:20The decisive carrier battle shifts toward the Java SeaChapter
  16. Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:17:00If Lexington survived the Coral SeaQ&A
  17. Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    21:24Why a Japanese Coral Sea victory delays rather than decides the warQ&A
  18. Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:20:16A decisive Japanese victory at Coral SeaQ&A
  19. Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    5:49:40Would skipping Tulagi improve the Coral Sea ambush?Q&A
  20. Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...
    8:09Coral Sea and control of the Pacific War's tempoChapter
  21. So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Operation & Learning From Experience! Part 3 or 1 of 3
    19:06The Falklands lesson hidden by the Harrier storyNotable Point
  22. Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late?
    42:44Two boats could not create strategic pressureNotable Point
  23. Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!
    2:05:34British night-fighting training could magnify American carrier powerQ&A
  24. Japanese Naval Aviation Organisation; Going their own way from 1912
    1:20:11The near loss of Japanese carrier fightersNotable Point
  25. Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right
    1:26:27Lexington and aviation-fuel vaporsChapter
  26. Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right
    1:28:08Lexington's torpedo attack and the timing of defensive killsNotable Point
  27. Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines
    56:33American carrier raids and the need for HMS VictoriousNotable Point
  28. IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class
    1:04:09Coral Sea aircrew losses and the absence from MidwayNotable Point
  29. Lexington Class: The First Modern Carriers?
    42:03Coral Sea tests Lexington's wartime carrier valueNotable Point
  30. Lexington Class: The First Modern Carriers?
    49:00Lexington's loss becomes a fire, flooding, and evacuation case studyChapter
  31. Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed
    51:57American night carrier doctrine in 1942Q&A
  32. Suggest Series Name Please: Comment Response video with a twist
    16:03Why an aircraft's first reception can dominate its historyNotable Point
  33. Curtiss SB2C Helldiver: Impression vs Reality - Key Aicraft Series 1, Aircraft 10
    8:02Why the Dauntless was the wrong technical baselineChapter
  34. Type 96 Mitsubishi A5M "Claude": Genesis Fighter for the WWII IJN Air Service
    57:23A5Ms fought from rear bases to the Battle of the Coral SeaChapter
  35. The American Carrier Raids of 1942: Wresting Control of the Pace of War from the Japanese
    25:39Avoiding Japan's decisive-battle trapChapter
  36. The American Carrier Raids of 1942: Wresting Control of the Pace of War from the Japanese
    30:25Carrier raids forced Japan to hold resources for defenceNotable Point
  37. The American Carrier Raids of 1942: Wresting Control of the Pace of War from the Japanese
    1:56:38The Doolittle Raid's strategic effect outweighed its damageChapter
  38. Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 1942
    38:36What combat experience added before Coral Sea and MidwayQ&A
  39. Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 1942
    1:14:58Would the US carriers still have fought at Midway?Q&A
  40. Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 1942
    1:58:22Could skipping Doolittle have strengthened Coral Sea?Q&A
  41. Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 1942
    4:10:05Could the 1942 carrier raids have reached the Kurils?Q&A
  42. Douglas TBD Devastator: Not So Bad as History Says - Key Aircraft Series 1, Aircraft 6
    42:47The TBD had a useful record before MidwayChapter
  43. Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time
    52:17An Eastern Fleet victory erases the Pacific carrier-war sequenceQ&A
  44. Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    31:22Why one available US carrier was an abnormal riskQ&A
  45. USS Enterprise: A Star is Born - KSS3 S4 Comment Response
    9:16Enterprise's carrier-battle record and repeated loss claimsNotable Point
  46. British Response to Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response
    3:47A German carrier could indirectly increase British Pacific strengthQ&A
  47. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 4
    46:55Japanese multi-carrier strikes depended on trained crewsQ&A
  48. New Orleans Class: US Treaty Era Cruisers
    35:31New Orleans fights across the Pacific and returns for occupation dutyChapter
  49. Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times
    1:22:19Six Japanese carriers at the Coral SeaQ&A
  50. Portland Class: Heavy Cruisers by the Stroke of a Pen?
    2:31Portland’s Pacific War battle recordNotable Point
  51. Portland Class: Heavy Cruisers by the Stroke of a Pen?
    23:20Portland screens carriers at Coral SeaChapter
  52. Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?
    2:41:12A surviving Singapore shifts the Pacific carrier warChapter
  53. Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?
    2:48:13British aircraft available for Coral Sea or MidwayQ&A
  54. Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?
    3:17:31Why Japanese naval chiefs disappear from battle historiesNotable Point
  55. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P2/14: Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu
    26:36Extra carriers at Coral Sea and MidwayNotable Point
  56. Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation
    2:21:06British night-flying carriers in the early Pacific WarQ&A
  57. Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?
    1:52:27How a surviving Pacific Fleet could reshape MidwayQ&A
  58. Four Random Books 11: Quasi American
    8:13Royal Navy battle summaries as operational learning documentsNotable Point
  59. Four Random Books 11: Quasi American
    9:12Task Force 17: ships, movement, and weather at Coral SeaNotable Point
  60. Four Random Books 11: Quasi American
    10:19Coral Sea search, intelligence, and a missed radio reportNotable Point
  61. Four Random Books 11: Quasi American
    12:07Coral Sea carrier air groups and usable striking powerNotable Point
  62. HMS Formidable: A Special Chat With Jamie from Armoured Carriers
    55:17Why Crete's carrier-covering operation is easily forgottenNotable Point
  63. Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    30:57Operational maps for Coral Sea and Midway, plus an IJN overviewNotable Point