An American destroyer, the USS Sims, was torpedoed and sank in the Coral Sea after being spotted by a Japanese search plane.
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Currently in 1942, tweeting day by day of news from the Second World War as well as other current events as they happened. 🇺🇲 Austin Warren
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The first Japanese aircraft sunk and surely won't be the last...Thank you @RealTimeWWII
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Shōhō ("Lucky Phoenix") is the first Japanese aircraft carrier ever sunk; 600+ crew are dead to bombs, fire, or drowning.
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A Japanese aircraft carrier has been sunk in the Coral Sea! @RealTimeWWII shares the news
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US torpedo bombers have sunk Japanese aircraft carrier Shōhō in the Coral Sea; Navy pilot Robert Dixon radios: "Scratch one flat top!"
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More fighting over the Coral Sea. Picture and report courtesy of @RealTimeWWII
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Japanese & US Navies continue their long-range duel in the Coral Sea, launching fleets of warplanes against each other:
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Despite having the opportunity to leave , General Wainwright has chosen to become a prisoner of war out of duty and loyalty to his fellow troops.
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On the night of May 6, 1942, they closed to within just 81 miles (130 km), yet remained completely unaware of each other's presence in the darkness
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Both American carriers (USS Yorktown and USS Lexington) and their Japanese counterparts (Shōkaku and Zuikaku) had spent the previous two days hunting one another.
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The air battle has continued in the Coral Seal Sea. Three days ago, a Japanese destroyer, the Kikuzaki, was hit by a torpedoed off the coast of Tulagi then sunk the following day.
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From a Colonel Mellnik now a captive. Thank you @RealTimeWWII
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American Colonel Mellnik is one of 11,000 captives from Corregidor: "The silence after the surrender was worse than the shelling. It's uncanny, awful."
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After five months of holding out, Corregidor is now in the hands of Imperial Japan. Photos and reporting posted from @RealTimeWWII
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Japanese troops celebrate on Corregidor, finally taken after five months of battle- Tokyo planned to conquer the Philippines in just two months.
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The US has surrendered at Corregidor. Photos courtesy of @RealTimeWWII
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Island of Corregidor, last US stronghold in the west Pacific, has fallen. 13,000 Allied troops surrendering to Japanese Army:
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Morse code transmission from Cpl. Irving Strobing in Corregidor. Sgt. Arnold Lappert. youtu.be/gPFByDvvLSs?si…
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They have lived on rations for months. Briefing from @RealTimeWWII
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General Wainwright, US commander on Corregidor, telegraphs President Roosevelt: "There is a limit of human endurance, and that point has long been passed."
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Japanese troops are on the fortress. Corregidor is about to fall.
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Despite brave Filipino & American resistance, Corregidor's defenders are outnumbered & outgunned, trying to cover miles of beaches with limited men & ammunition; Japanese are flooding ashore.
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The Filipinos and Americans may repulse this attack. Still things look grim moving forward.
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Amidst the wrecks of other invasion craft, Japanese troops are suffering terrible death toll to US firepower on Corregidor's oil-slicked beaches.
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Japanese forces pushed through Northern Burma, crossing into Yunnan Province, China.
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