Occurring within a month of each other, these turning point engagements brought an end to Japan's military expansion and six months of Allied defeat and retreat in the Pacific. Fought mostly over the ocean by airmen flying primarily from aircraft carriers, the battles were marked on both sides by courage and luck, forewarning and foreboding, skill and ineptitude.

Includes indexes.

Introduction -- Coral Sea and Midway, 1942: An Overview -- Reference Works and Sites -- General Histories, Hardware, Biography, Combatants, Special Studies -- Chronology: Battles of the Coral Sea, April-May 1942 and Battle of Midway, May-June 1942 -- Addenda -- Journals Consulted -- Author Index -- Name Index.