Admiral Chester Nimitz made the call to target ... and so it did — after an amazing feat of U.S. airmanship downed Yamamoto’s plane, which crashed in the jungle on the island of Bougainville.

Admiral Yamamoto did not live to see the end of the war, though. The United States discovered where he was and shot down his plane in 1943. [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: We say that Adm. Isoroku ...