[jim_trent]

It also made it possible to have enough range to shoot down Yamamoto.

I once thought that, too. However, I checked the dates and found that that is incorrect. Yamamoto was shot down long before Lindbergh went to the South Pacific. At the time Yamamoto was shot down, Lindbergh was in Michigan working for Henry Ford.

[NFHale]

RE Yamamoto’s shoot down:

That’s an incredible story, one I’ve always been fascinated by... we were “reading their mail” basically, knew where he would be on a specific date and time, sent a squadron after him, and shot him out of the sky over Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.

Pure revenge against the guy who planned Pearl Harbor.

I guess the modern equivalent would be going after and taking out Bin Laden... (and look at the way libs reacted to that).

[Dan(9698)]

I read Lindbergh's wartime journal some time ago.

I apparently misremember some of the stuff in it.