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Japanese Pilots Couldn’t believe a P-38 Shot Down Yamamoto’s Plane From 400 Miles..Until They Saw It:
April 18th, 1943, 435 miles from Henderson Field, Guadal Canal, Admiral Isuroku Yamamoto, architect of Pearl Harbor, commander of the combined fleet, sat in the cramped fuselage of a Mitsubishi G4M bomber streaking toward Bugenville at 8,000 ft. The man who had promised to dictate peace terms in the White House had less than 60 seconds to live.
And he had no idea American fighters were already closing from behind at 350 mph. What happened in the skies over Buganville that morning would become one of the most audacious precision strikes in military history. A mission so improbable that Japanese intelligence refused to believe it for weeks. When wreckage investigators finally reached the crash site and measured the distances involved, when they plotted the intercept angles and calculated the fuel requirements, they confronted an impossible truth. The Americans had
