Operation Vengeance
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operation-vengeance-182-7972222
title:
Operation Vengeance
text:
Operation Vengeance was the American military operation to kill Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto of the Imperial Japanese Navy on 18 April 1943 during the Solomon Islands campaign in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Yamamoto, commander of the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy, was killed near Bougainville Island when his transport aircraft was shot down by United States Army Air Forces fighter aircraft operating from Kukum Field on Guadalcanal. The mission of the U.S. aircraft was specifi
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
U.S. operation to kill Admiral Yamamoto, 18 April 1943
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Vengeance
date created:
2006-03-04T16:18:25Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T16:15:09Z
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