"It's going to be one of the last battles you're going to see, especially once you get satellites," he says. The japanese are significantly behind in radar technology and the deployment of radar to things like fleets. Yet even with the relatively rudimentary radar on the us side, even with the air reconnaissance out there, scouring the skies, looking for everyone, these fleets get frightfully close to each other. At one point they'll be 70 miles part from each other - how do you have it boggles your mind?
Coral Sea, Midway and Guadalcanal are three of the most famous battles of the Second World War. Together they will shift the momentum in the Pacific theater and usher in the era of modern naval and amphibious warfare.