Admiral Chester Nimitz made the call to target him. As Donald A. Davis notes in his book Lightning Strike, the fact that Yamamoto, who carried out the Pearl Harbor attack, was responsible for the ...

April 18, 1943: Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto - the architect of Pearl Harbor - was shot down in the South Pacific. His escort pilots failed to protect him from a daring U.S. ambush.

In January 1941, however, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto proposed that the decades-old strategy be scrapped in favor of one calling for a first strike on the U.S. Pacific Fleet. It was not a completely ...

TJ3 History Yamamoto Shot Down: WWII’s Boldest Kill Mission Posted: March 26, 2025 | Last updated: March 26, 2025 On April 18, 1943, U.S. intelligence intercepted flight plans for Admiral ...

President Donald Trump's "America First" policies have prompted Europe to boost defence and infrastructure spending. Daniel ...

THE PORTILLO EXPEDITION: MYSTERY ON BOUGAINVILLE ISLAND examines the circumstances surrounding the death of Isoroku Yamamoto – the Japanese WWII Admiral who planned the Pearl Harbor surprise ...