1943
Assassination of Isoruku Yamamoto
The US decodes inspection details of Yamamoto & intercepts his plane
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Solomon Islands in Japan. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
The US decodes inspection details of Yamamoto & intercepts his plane
Death of Isoruku Yamamoto, killed by the Americans
Yamamoto directs Operation I-Go, a major Japanese air offensive against Allied positions in the Solomons and New Guinea.
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