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 ...

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.

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) was the Japanese Naval commander who was given the order to attack Pearl Harbour, an order he was duty bound to obey which went against his own personal beliefs.