The air ambush and killing of Yamamoto is my favorite WWII story. My Dad was on an LST in The Pacific and the long suppressed story of Yamamoto’s end always brings a smile to my face.
My Dad served on Subs during WW2, BTW a great movie with J Cagney playing Bull Halsey during the Guadalcanal campaign and the mission that killed Yammamoto.
The Gallant Hours:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0jjOpIOu7s
Great movie. Yammamoto was a military genius.
The declaration of was was supposed to be delivered prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor o course it didn’t happen.
The ambush of Yamamoto’s aircraft was, according to what I have read, was attributable to SIGINT, which had recovered his itinerary. U S Army Air Corps assets knew where and when he would be and they were there to take him out of the game. I got to the Philippines in 1961 and there was still a lot if ill will toward Jap. Then I got assigned to Japan in 1965 and I must say that they’d done a magnificent job of rebuilding in the two decades since the surrender.