<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" id="mwxg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="World War II">World War II</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Coral_Sea" id="mwxw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of the Coral Sea">Battle of the Coral Sea</a> begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_carrier" id="mwyA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Aircraft carrier">aircraft carrier</a> <a about="#mwt118" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"USS","href":"./Template:USS"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"Yorktown"},"2":{"wt":"CV-5"},"3":{"wt":"6"}},"i":0}}]}' href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Yorktown_(CV-5)" id="mwyQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="USS Yorktown (CV-5)" typeof="mw:Transclusion">USS<span typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><i>Yorktown</i></a> on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Japan" id="mwyg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Empire of Japan">Japanese</a> naval forces at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulagi" id="mwyw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tulagi">Tulagi</a> Island in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Islands" id="mwzA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Solomon Islands">Solomon Islands</a>. The Japanese forces had <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Tulagi_(May_1942)" id="mwzQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Invasion of Tulagi (May 1942)">invaded Tulagi</a> the day before.