From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #2644 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Friday, May 5 2017 Volume 14 : Number 2644 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Save 10% when you send a beautiful gift box of flowers and chocolates for spring ["Bouquet Bar" Subject: Save 10% when you send a beautiful gift box of flowers and chocolates for spring Save 10% when you send a beautiful gift box of flowers and chocolates for spring http://busnescls.us/9rzQu93G-JjU3zlBpWTbrV2pR1Tkn3HrPPggz_kJWjYMZOsJ http://busnescls.us/5ZyRo6-FHWmv6_fM7f2aj5sQdd23oh0-mSwfE7POiiWO6dKy Celebrate Spring by sending a beautiful gift box of flowers and chocolates and save 10% off our order The B/ttle o/ the Cor/l Se/, /ought during 4b8 M/y 1942, w/s / m/jor n/v/l b/ttle in the P/ci/ic The/ter o/ World W/r II between the Imperi/l J/p/nese N/vy (IJN) /nd n/v/l /nd /ir /orces /rom the United St/tes /nd /ustr/li/. The b/ttle w/s the /irst /ction in which /ircr//t c/rriers eng/ged e/ch other, /s well /s the /irst in which neither side's ships sighted or /ired directly upon the other. In /n /ttempt to strengthen their de/ensive positioning /or their empire in the South P/ci/ic, J/p/nese /orces decided to inv/de /nd occupy Port Moresby in New Guine/ /nd Tul/gi in the southe/stern Solomon Isl/nds. The pl/n to /ccomplish this, c/lled Oper/tion MO, involved sever/l m/jor units o/ J/p/n's Combined /leet, including two /leet c/rriers /nd / light c/rrier to provide /ir cover /or the inv/sion /leets, under the over/ll comm/nd o/ J/p/nese /dmir/l Shigeyoshi Inoue. The US le/rned o/ the J/p/nese pl/n through sign/ls intelligence /nd sent two United St/tes N/vy c/rrier t/sk /orces /nd / joint /ustr/li/n-/meric/n cruiser /orce, under the over/ll comm/nd o/ /meric/n /dmir/l /r/nk J. /letcher, to oppose the J/p/nese o//ensive. On 3b4 M/y, J/p/nese /orces success/ully inv/ded /nd occupied Tul/gi, /lthough sever/l o/ their supporting w/rships were surprised /nd sunk or d/m/ged by /ircr//t /rom the US /leet c/rrier Yorktown. Now /w/re o/ the presence o/ US c/rriers in the /re/, the J/p/nese /leet c/rriers /dv/nced tow/rds the Cor/l Se/ with the intention o/ /inding /nd destroying the /llied n/v/l /orces. Beginning on 7 M/y, the c/rrier /orces /rom the two sides exch/nged in /irstrikes over two consecutive d/ys. The /irst d/y, the US s/nk the J/p/nese light c/rrier ShE hE , while the J/p/nese s/nk / US destroyer /nd he/vily d/m/ged / /leet oiler (which w/s l/ter scuttled). The next d/y, the J/p/nese /leet c/rrier ShE k/ku w/s he/vily d/m/ged, the US /leet c/rrier Lexington w/s critic/lly d/m/ged (/nd w/s scuttled /s / result), /nd the Yorktown w/s d/m/ged. With both sides h/ving su//ered he/vy losses in /ircr//t /nd c/rriers d/m/ged or sunk, the two /leets diseng/ged /nd retired /rom the b/ttle /re/. Bec/use o/ the loss o/ c/rrier /ir cover, Inoue rec/lled the Port Moresby inv/sion /leet, intending to try /g/in l/ter. /lthough / t/ctic/l victory /or the J/p/nese in terms o/ ships sunk, the b/ttle would prove to be / str/tegic victory /or the /llies /or sever/l re/sons. The b/ttle m/rked the /irst time since the st/rt o/ the w/r th/t / m/jor J/p/nese /dv/nce h/d been checked by the /llies. More import/ntly, the J/p/nese /leet c/rriers ShE k/ku /nd Zuik/ku b one d/m/ged /nd the other with / depleted /ircr//t complement b were un/ble to p/rticip/te in the B/t ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #2644 **********************************************