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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.
Admiral Yamamoto, a few hours before his death, saluting Japanese naval pilots at Rabaul, April 18, 1943 Prime Minister Hideki Tojo bowing to a portrait of Yamamoto, following the return of his ashes to Japan, May 1943 Yamamoto's state funeral, 5 June 1943 Yamamoto's ashes are carried from the battleship Musashi at Kisarazu, Japan on May 23, 1943.
Thomas George Lanphier Jr. (November 27, 1915 – November 26, 1987) was a Panama-born American colonel and fighter pilot during World War II who was first given sole credit, then later partial credit shared with Rex T. Barber, for shooting down the plane carrying Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the commander in chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy. [1]
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe: 6 June 1904 Kawamura Sumiyoshi: 12 August 1904* Samejima Kazunori: 13 November 1905 Shibayama Yahachi: 13 November 1905 Hidaka Sōnojō: 7 August 1908 Kataoka Shichirō: 1 December 1910 Kamimura Hikonojō: 1 December 1910 Dewa Shigetō: 9 July 1912 Uryū Sotokichi: 16 October 1912 Saitō Makoto: 16 October 1912 Misu Sotarō ...
Military historian Daniel L. Haulman, who was a member of the US Air Force panel that reviewed the case in 1985, stated in 2024 that after reviewing new evidence, "I have become convinced that, despite the panel decision and the subsequent Rice decision, credit for shooting down Yamamoto's plane really should go to Rex Barber." [8]
From Japanese records and survivors, among them Admiral Ugaki, the following facts are certain: only two G4M Betty bombers were attacked; Yamamoto's was shot down over Bougainville with no survivors; the second went into the ocean and Admiral Ugaki was among the three survivors. The day following the attack, a Japanese search party located the ...
The following events occurred in April 1943: . April 18, 1943: Japan's Admiral Yamamoto killed when Americans discover and shoot down his airplane April 20, 1943: Jefferson Memorial dedicated on Jefferson's 200th birthday April 3, 1943: Shipwreck survivor Poon Lim rescued after 131 days adrift April 12, 1943: Martin Bormann designated as Hitler's second-in-command
On 12 February 1942, Yamato became the flagship of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's Combined Fleet. [13] [19] A veteran of Japan's crushing victory over Russia at the Battle of Tsushima in the Russo-Japanese War, the Pearl Harbor victor was planning a decisive engagement with the United States Navy at Midway Island.