[Verginius Rufus]

FDR gave the order to “get Yamamoto” and he was killed in 1943. Was that a major theme of FDR’s re-election campaign in 1944, that he had killed the mastermind of the Pearl Harbor attack?

[justice14]

I’d like to know the answer to this too.

[Ole Okie]

Was that a major theme of FDR’s re-election campaign in 1944, that he had killed the mastermind of the Pearl Harbor attack?

No. Americans of that day would be more inclined to praise the P-38 pilots who shot down Yamamoto.