U.S. intelligence decrypted Japanese plans, revealing Admiral Yamamoto's flight path. Eighteen P-38G Lightnings embarked on a daring 1,000-mile mission to intercept him over Bougainville. This ...

It was the Japanese admiral who planned the Pearl Harbor ... controversy that lasted for sixty years over who actually shot down Yamamoto’s plane: Barber and Lanphier were credited with a ...

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 ...

Isoroku Takano was born in Japan on April 4, 1884, and adopted into the Yamamoto family in 1916. He graduated from the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy the same year Admiral Husband Kimmel ...

Izuru Narushima's well-crafted, rather old-fashioned and unquestioning elegy to Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, at once the strongest opponent to Japan's entry into WWII and its greatest naval hero ...

The admiral's tour was scheduled for April 18 ... telling everyone upon landing that he had shot down Yamamoto's plane. (Decades later, historians determined another pilot had fired the fatal ...

At the time it was unclear whether the admiral was aboard any of the Bettys. Barber and others thought the claim as preposterous. When the news got out that Yamamoto's plane had been shot down ...