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 ...

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 ...

As U.S. forces closed in, Japanese commanders scrambled to protect their most valuable leader—Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. But despite urgent orders and a high-stakes flight, the pilots tasked with ...