Kill Yamamoto: The Mission to Avenge Pearl Harbor - Part 2
Conflicted: A History Podcast
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Japanese Search Party in Search of Yama Moto's Plane
Japanese flight control had lost contact with yama moto's plane that morning, and they feared the worst. A search party was immediately despatched to find the commander in chief of the japanese navy - or what was left of him. On april nineteenth, a day after the aerial ambush, a member of the j Japan patrol started to smell the distinct chemical tang of gasoline wafting above the rot and the stench of the jungle. They followed their noses and eventually came upon the fresh wreckage of a jJapan bomber. Both wings had been torn off, and the fuselage was shredded by fire from an american p 38 a qut, burned out hulk.
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