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Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of the Imperial Japanese Navy, scheduled an inspection tour of the Solomon Islands and New Guinea.He planned to inspect Japanese air units participating in Operation I-Go that had begun 7 April 1943; in addition, the tour would boost Japanese morale following the disastrous Guadalcanal campaign and its subsequent evacuation during January and February.
Focus-puller David Brostoff was killed when, during filming of a motor-race scene at Granville, Australia, one of the sprint-cars swerved off the track and struck him, driving his body through two fences. The filmmakers were criticized for a lack of a proper stunt coordinator at the scene and for allowing non-stunt drivers to drive at race-speed.
Yamamoto was twenty years old when her family was placed in the internment camp in Poston, Arizona. [3] She had two brothers, one of whom was killed in combat fighting for the United States army during her family's internment. [4] In an effort to stay active, Yamamoto began reporting for the Poston Chronicle, the camp newspaper.
Elvis: That's the Way It Is is a 1970 American documentary film directed by Denis Sanders. The film documents American singer Elvis Presley's Summer Festival in Las Vegas during August 1970. It was his first non-dramatic film since the beginning of his film career in 1956, and the film gives a clear view of Presley's return to live performances ...
The first arrest in the 1996 death of Tupac Shakur came Friday with the murder indictment of Duane “Keffe D” Davis, one of the last living witnesses to the Las Vegas drive-by shooting of the ...
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States: 61 [note 2] 867 928: Bystander video, Police body camera, CCTV 2017 Las Vegas shooting: A gunman opened fire on a country music festival from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel, killing 60 and wounding several hundred. The shooting is the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman in American history.
Before and during the war Yamamoto frequently corresponded with Hori, these personal letters would become the subject of the NHK documentary The Truth of Yamamoto. [40] The claim that Yamamoto was a Catholic [41] is likely due to confusion with retired Admiral Shinjiro Stefano Yamamoto, who was a decade older than Isoroku, and died in 1942. [42]
Pat Morita died of kidney failure, following a urinary tract and gallbladder bacterial infection, on November 24, 2005, at his home in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the age of 73. Throughout his life, Morita had battled alcoholism. [31] [22] [32] He was cremated at Palm Green Valley Mortuary and Cemetery in Las Vegas, Nevada. [33]