Japan Sent an Invasion Fleet to Australian Territory. Why Did It Turn Back? Real WW2 Footage

FREE 72-Hour Family Plan for your home, plus our store, Holdline Provisions: https://holdlineprovisions.com/from-y... Free live Situation screen for your area: https://holdlineprovisions.com/sitrep... In May 1942 Japan sent an invasion fleet south to take Port Moresby, across the water from Queensland. Allied codebreakers had read the plan. What followed in the Coral Sea was a battle fought by aircraft over hundreds of miles of ocean: the fleets never saw each other. This film follows it day by day from the record of both sides, and explains why Japan turned back. Store break (at 31:23): our own store, Holdline Provisions, has a free 72-Hour Family Plan and prep, power, first aid, security and homestead gear. https://holdlineprovisions.com/?ref=y... CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold open 2:26 Act 1: The road south 21:02 Act 2: The blind hunt 43:33 Midpoint: The duel 55:22 Act 3: After the battle 1:14:47 Act 4: What it decided 1:21:47 Close NOTE ON PICTURES The film and photographs are real archive material. The maps, diagrams and boards are our own reconstructions from the published record, and positions are marked as approximate. No AI generated pictures are used. SOURCES AND CREDITS Written sources are named in the narration, chiefly G. Hermon Gill's official history of the Royal Australian Navy (Australian War Memorial), the US Office of Naval Intelligence Combat Narrative (1943), the Naval War College analysis (1947), Captain F. C. Sherman's Lexington action report (US National Archives) and Roy Scrivener's oral history (AWM S00535). Archive photographs and film: Australian War Memorial items with expired copyright, US Navy and US National Archives material in the public domain, each credited on screen. Music: Epidemic Sound. Narration: synthetic voice. Corrections are welcome in the comments, with a source. #ww2 #australia #coralsea