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 ...

“Afterward the Admiral’s body and the others were ... controversy that lasted for sixty years over who actually shot down Yamamoto’s plane: Barber and Lanphier were credited with a half ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Afterward the Admiral’s body and the others were ... controversy that lasted for sixty years over who actually shot down Yamamoto’s plane: Barber and Lanphier were credited with a half ...

He graduated from the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy the same year Admiral Husband ... his plane was shot down by U.S. fighters near the Solomon Islands in April 1943. Yamamoto, a hero in Japan ...

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 ...

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 ...

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