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Yamamoto Shootdown
Lockheed P-38 Lightnings
Lightnings Strike
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was the architect of Japanese Naval strategy in the Pacific, and had personally planned the attack on Pearl Harbor – and when broken Japanese codes revealed that he would by flying around the South Pacific inspecting Japanese bases, American forces were eager to bring down his aircraft. On April 18, 1943, sixteen P-38s succeeded in intercepting and downing the admiral's airplane – which crashed into the jungle below. |