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Yamamoto's ashes return to Japan at Kisarazu aboard battleship Musashi on May 23, 1943 Yamamoto's state funeral, June 5, 1943. The crash site and body of Yamamoto were found on 19 April, the day after the attack, by a Japanese search-and-rescue party led by army engineer Lieutenant Tsuyoshi Hamasuna.
John William Mitchell (June 14, 1914 – November 15, 1995) [1] was an officer of the United States Air Force, a flying ace [2] and the leader of Operation Vengeance, the mission to shoot down Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. [3] He served in World War II and the Korean War.
Isoroku Yamamoto (山本 五十六, Yamamoto Isoroku, April 4, 1884 – April 18, 1943) was a Marshal Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II.
Citation: The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to First Lieutenant (Air Corps) Rex Theodore Barber (ASN: 0-429902), United States Army Air Forces, for extraordinary heroism while serving as Pilot of a P-38 fighter airplane in the 339th Fighter Squadron, 37th Fighter Group, THIRTEENTH Air Force, U.S. Army Air Forces, attached to a Marine ...
It was only with drop tanks supplying 1,700 litres (450 US gal) of extra fuel per fighter that P-38s could carry out Operation Vengeance, the downing of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's aircraft. (For this mission, each fighter carried one drop tank of approximately 570 to 620 litres (150 to 165 US gal), and a larger one of approximately 1,100 to ...
Operation Vengeance Thomas George Lanphier Jr. (November 27, 1915 – November 26, 1987) was a Panama-born American colonel and fighter pilot during World War II who was first given sole credit, then later partial credit shared with Rex T. Barber , for shooting down the plane carrying Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto , the commander in chief of the ...
The Netflix drama 'Operation Mincemeat,' starring Colin Firth and Matthew Macfadyen, is based on the unbelievable true story of a macabre espionage mission.
Lieutenant Colonel Besby Frank Holmes (December 5, 1917 – July 23, 2006) was an American fighter pilot who in April 1943 took part in Operation Vengeance, a notable American wartime effort to kill Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who had planned the attack on Pearl Harbor.