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Ambush Yamamoto! The Mirage of Heroism!: Destroy Admiral Yamamoto!

Ambush Yamamoto! The Mirage of Heroism!: Destroy Admiral Yamamoto!

Bond, Robert F.

Paperback

Air Combat

ISBN10: 1499206755
ISBN13: 9781499206753
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Nov 10 2014
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.42 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
THIS BOOK MAY NOT BE THE LAST, BUT IT IS THE LATEST TO TRY TO RESOLVE THE 71 YEAR PUZZLE OF JUST WHO DID SHOOT DOWN ADMIRAL ISOROKU YAMAMOTO 0N 18 APRIL 1943? LT. REX T. BARBER OR CAPT. THOMAS G. LAMPHIER JR.? THE AUTHOR WILL TAKE YOU FROM COLLEGE, THROUGH BASIC FLIGHT TRAINING, THROUGH EARLY SQUADRON TRAINING NEAR SAN FRANCISCO AND ADVANCED TRAINING ON FIJI. BOTH BARBER AND LAMPHIER WOULD FLY P-39'S P-38'S AS MEMBERS OF THE CACTUS AIR FORCE STATIONED AT HENDERSON FIELD ON GUADALCANAL. ON 18 APRIL 1943 IN AN ATTEMPT TO SURPRISE, INTERCEPT AND SHOOT DOWN A JAPANESE BOMBER CARRYING SUPREME NAVAL ADMIRAL YAMAMOTO. THEY LIFTED OFF FROM HENDERSON FIELD ON THIS EASTER SUNDAY WITH 14 OTHER P-38'S TO ASSASSINATE THE ARCHITECT OF THE SNEAK ATTACK OF PEARL HARBOR THAT BROUGHT WAR IN THE PACIFIC BETWEEN JAPAN AND AMERICA. WE CELEBRATE THE SUCESS OF OPERATION VENGEANCE, BUT ANOTHER WAR BROKE OUT OVER WHO SHOT DOWN ADMIRAL YAMAMOTO? INCLUDED ARE 104 PHOTOGRAPHS, DIAGRAMS, ILLUSTRATIONS, AND MAPS TO ASSIST YOU IN UNRAVELING THIS PUZZLE.

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