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This action was clearly an American victory, not a Japanese one, and Wikipedia is the only place where I have seen it called otherwise. Twenty-three large Japanese aircraft were destroyed with all of their crews for the loss of two small American aircraft and one pilot. The fact that these results were obtained in the air near the task force instead of on the ground at Rabaul is immaterial. TiC (talk) 19:46, 23 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The Americans were turned back without launching the raid on Rabaul, so their mission was thwarted. The almost complete destruction of the 4th Ku, however, did have strategic consequences for the Japanese. It's hard to give the result in one pithy summary, like "American victory". Cla68 (talk) 23:38, 23 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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