Here is the most complete study of the actions of the US Navy in World War II. Its author, Samuel Eliot Morison, is a well-known American historian and professor at Harvard University. Having received the support of US President F.D. Roosevelt, S.E. Morrison had access to any information, collected unique material and based on it created a fundamental fifteen-volume work. This volume is dedicated to the dramatic events of the spring and summer of 1942. In the center of the book are two battles that have forever gone down in the history of naval art: the battle in the Coral Sea and the battle at Midway Atoll, as well as a description of the actions of submarines and landing on Guadalcanal Island, which became the first offensive operation of the US armed forces in the Pacific Ocean.