[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Southern Asia, 1941: Japanese Centrifugal Offensive (and Continued Operations), January-May 1942
Southwest Russia, 1942: German Summer Offensive, Operations, 7 May-23 July 1942
North Africa, 1940: Rommel’s Second Offensive, 21 January-7 July 1942

[Homer_J_Simpson]

John Toland, The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945

[tanknetter]

Tactical victory for the Japanese: they lost one light carrier (Shoho) and had one fleet carrier (Shokaku) seriously damaged. The US lost one fleet carrier (Lexington) and had another (Yorktown) seriously damaged to the point where wounds later sustained (at Midway) weren’t survivable.

Strategic victory for the US, as it ruined Yamamoto’s plans for the SE Pacific and, along with the Doolittle Raid, pushed him into deciding to try for a knock-out blow at Midway.

The article itself, portraying US losses as “light” is an interesting piece of US propaganda; not only were US losses worse numerically than the Japanese, given that the US had fewer carriers to work with the impact of the losses was magnified.

[Seizethecarp]

Love the parachute carrier pidgeon story...w/sad end for some pidgeons!