 Complete the following phrase:  For five months, Japans powerful carrier fleet, the Kidō Butai, dominated the Western Pacific and Eastern Indian Oceans. Japan attacked with near impunity wherever she chose. This domice ended abruptly in May 1942 when Allied naval forces, centered around aircraft carriers, frustrated Japanese amphibious invasion plans for Port Moresby, New Guinea during the Battle of the Coral Sea. The Allies sunk a light carrier but lost a fleet carrier in return. Each side also sustained heavy damage to another fleet carrier. The following month, the Allies sank four of Japans six fleet carriers during the Battle of Midway at the cost of one American carrier. Two months after that, with air cover from American carriers, the Allies established a tenuous toehold on Guadalcanal at the southern end of the Solomon Islands. Both sides committed major troops and naval resources in their efforts to gain control of the island that neither side really wanted but could not afford to leave to the enemy. Opposing carriers fought major naval engagements over Guadalcanal, including carrier battles in the 