Operation Vengeance: Americans Shoot Down Yamamoto's Plane
American P-38 fighters intercepted and shot down Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's aircraft over Bougainville in a meticulously planned ambush codenamed Operation Vengeance. The death of Japan's most brilliant naval strategist, the architect of Pearl Harbor, dealt a devastating blow to Japanese morale and deprived their fleet of its foremost tactical mind.
April 18, 1943
83 years ago
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Bougainville Island
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Isoroku Yamamoto
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Operation Vengeance
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Operation Vengeance
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Isoroku Yamamoto
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Bougainville Island
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Papua New Guinea
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Bougainville
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
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