Operation Vengeance - The mission to take down Isoroku Yamamoto - 18th April 1943
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- On 18th April 1943, commander of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, took a flight from Rabaul to an island near Bougainville as part of a tour to raise morale following the defeat of Japanese forces at Guadalcanal. Over Bougainville at 09:34, Yamamoto’s flight of 2 G4Ms and 6 A6M3 Zeroes were intercepted by 16 American P-38Gs of 347th and 18th Fighter Group who had flown a precisely timed flight plan for 2 and a half hours from Guadalcanal. Yamamoto’s aircraft was successfully shot down into the jungle by Lt. Rex Barber; Yamamoto’s body was later found to be still in his seat clutching his sword.
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We Killed Yamamoto: The long-range P-38 assassination of the man behind Pearl Harbour, Bougainville 1943 by Si Sheppard
Killing a Peacock by Maj Adonis C. Arvanitakis
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Harold Fudenna, a Japanese American who graduated from the Military Intelligence Service, intercepted the message that Yamamoto will be flying the day in question.
Well, thank you for adding that. That's great information. With the internment of so many Japanese Americans it's very interesting that someone of that ancestry was allowed to be in such an important position.. My best wishes to you from the UK.
@@paulreilly3904 Those Japanese Americans who served as interpreters, translators & interrogators were not allowed to discuss their service until the mid-1970s. They served in every Pacific Theater Campaign. My Uncle was drafted from one of those internment camps and was stationed in Japan during the occupation. If you are ever visiting San Francisco, please visit the Military Intelligence Learning Center
the first school of its kind established in 1941. I will be your docent.
This is a signature moment for the USAAF in the SW Pacific theater of operations. They pulled it off by using a compass and clock all while enduring an environment made to sap the strength and concentration of each aviator. Impressive doesn’t begin to describe this incredible mission.
Brilliant, but it was the standard way to navigate back then, dead reckoning.
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@@georgemalkin6546 I read they used a different, more accurate, navy compass.
@@Fastbikkel Hahaha!!!! This!!!
Great moment
Near the end of his life, I had the distinct honour of meeting Lieutenant Lawrence Graebner (ret.). He told me the story of his role in Operation Vengeance, as well as of the times he was shot down over Iwo Jima. The world is a little less each day as that generation leaves us.
Yes, A.L. They were The 🏅Greatest Generation , And you and I have pride in being the Sons & Daughters of that Greatest Generation 🇺🇸
There is a Reader’s Digest article of the one remaining killer pilots going to court and asking the judge to declare him the pilot who killed Yamamoto. The judge refused to do so. What a shameful act to end one of the greatest stories of WWII. The Japanese never learned of the fact that our Intelligence analysts were deciphering their military messages. God Bless AMERICA!!!
Thank you again, A.L.
I shudder to think what would have happened to Europe & then Our Country had then rats like Hitler and the then vicious Japanese had won that war!
Also, if you haven’t seen The Gallant Hours, a magnificent movie following Admiral Bill Halsey through
The Battle of Guadalcanal, and The Solomon Islands , and others , you can see it Free on Tubi .It shows how crucial it was for us to hold on to it at all costs, while the Japs likewise were in a maniacal death defying mindset to take it back at any cost. Luckily, Happily, after many months of bitter fighting , they’d had enough and withdrew after taking much worse losses than us !
Had they taken Guadalcanal, they would have been nothing stopping them from going across to Australia and New Zealand cutting our line of supply to those countries and extending the war any number of years, or worse.
My father was a senior NCO at Wheeler Field on Oahu on December 7, 1941. He was forced to take over command of his unit when the CO was killed by a straffing Japanese Zero. He managed to safely organize the men into vehicles to move equipment out of the hangar targets. He also established small gunnery units to provide defensive ground fire aimed at the attacking zeroes. For his efforts he was awarded the Bronze Star with Combat V and a Purple Heart.
You can say that and know for sure you are correct, it seems like the best of us have already been born. I am embarrassed by my generation and the one after, Jesus we are going in the wrong direction
The firepower of 4 concentrated .50cal with a 20 mm cannon was fearsome.
That’s why on those early models of the P-38, there’s no place for a gun camera in this particular mission
My dad was a Marine and was stationed at Henderson field on the Marine flight crews. He said when the P-38s came back, they were doing victory rolls so the ground crews knew they had shot him down. The Army P-38s were the only fighters that had the range to make the interception.
P38 my favorite fighter of WW2
That is a fantastic info to the end of this story. Your Dad is one of my heroes, & how fantastic he saw this piece of history. Oh, I'm a bit of airplane lover. P38 was my favorite in WW2.
An often overlooked point when people discuss fighter ranges and the early unescorted bomber missions in Europe that had high losses, especially the infamous "Black Thursday" mission on Schweinfert, is that this mission happened a full six months before the Schweinfert raid and it covered more distance than the Schweinfert mission did, it's proof that those missions didn't have to go unescorted if only the fighter's in Europe had been provided with the US made all metal pressurized drop tanks.
I've shut down more than one argument about that using this mission as proof.
Using the relay system the P47 variant's that were in Europe in numbers at the time could have flown the first and third legs of an escort mission and P38's could have flown the second (longest) leg taking them to the targets, it absolutely could have been done, the same P38 variant's that were used on this mission were available in Europe at that time.
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Schweinfert was bad...
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Yep, and it didn't have to be.
A propeller from Yamamoto's Betty bomber is on display at the South Australian Aviation Museum. It was recovered from the wreck of his plane.
I also read that Ray Hines was later seen by a PBY for the last time flying much further south. He was flying at very low altitude with an engine feathered. Tragically, he never reached Henderson Field and died alone, forever to be remembered.
Matome Ugaki survived the crash indeed, and in the last days of war he _insisted_ in climbing aboard a _Judy_ Bomber for a Kamikaze mission. As happened so often, the aircraft was shot down by American Fighters before hitting any target.
Ah so, I didn't know any of them survived. Interesting he went back to war like so.
@@carolecarr5210 Yes, Ugaki in a separate plane survived..and that is chilling..it means if the two planes switched position, sheer chance, Yamamoto would probably have survived...after all this, mission could have easily failed..
Ugaki himself MAY have been worth mounting the mission to kill, in his own right...still a major card in the IJN.Japanese military deck..
@@KateLicker
Very good comment, and yes... Ugaki would have made a worthwhile target himself
Great to see useful or interesting information like this posted. Thanks.
A superb piece of intelligence, planning and execution.
The old Rabaul airstrip is now buried under metres of volcanic ash after the 1994 Tavurvur eruption. I believe Admiral Yamamoto's bunker is also buried. I was fortunate enough to see it before the event and see the maps drawn on the cement walls. Hundreds of aircraft remain missing in the jungles and waters of PNG.
There is a video on TH-cam of people visiting the wreck.
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Thanks for that info
Thanks. I'd heard about that eruption.
You are the adventurer!
Almost three hours to break the exact minute, entirely relying on compass and wristwatch.
That's sick, an insane mission!
Well presented, informative, well animated, and straight to the point.
Excellent work.
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To me what impresses me most about this mission is the fact that they flew for so many hours without autopilot, flush with the waves and with their nerves on edge the whole time, along with the heat, the noise, the fatigue. The fact that only one allied pilot was lost is incredible.
... true. However if taking aside the flying so close to the water, perhaps the most challenging P-38 missions were of late in 1944 being flown from Morotai and Sansapoor (or, Saipan) with 9 or 9.5 hours. In early 1945 one mission of the 12th Fighter Squadron lasted 10 hours and a handful of minutes.
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Incredible inner discipline of each of the crew members.
I have to believe our guys today have that as their emblematic encouragement to be just as great for Our Country 🇺🇸
I assume they had to maintain radio silence, as well.
@@jerometaperman7102You are right. According to the post war books, the famous "eleven o'clock, high" broke radio silence.
This is important, because operations in the Pacific area were usually impossible without radio messages. The Japanese raid to Pearl Harbor being another and major exception.
In the present case, the US intelligence services and the US admirals had been consulted beforehand, but not admiral Halsey, who was operating near Japan. Now, nobody can explain, it seems , how Halsey 's warm approval nevertheless reached headquarters. ("Codebreakers" by David Kahn)
YAMAMOTO must have flipped his lid when those Lightnings showed up to shoot him down on a routine flight.
he wasn't assassinated. he was military commander at war he was killed in action.
So I guess Privates and NCO's are just KIA but Admirals/Generals are assasinated? Rubbish
I totally agree!!
Él no fue asesinado, era un comandante militar en guerra y fue muerto en acción.
Merely a technical term.
Usually to make the distinction between the soldier killed in combat & the one gotten in a carefully prepared ambush.
No derogatory meaning here.
If Rommel had been had during the 1941 Keyes commando operation at his villa in Libya, it would be said too that he was assassinated.
While the death of general Gott shot down in his plane by a German fighter was attributed to fatality (or Destiny) because he was replaced by Monty whom Churchill didn’t want at 1st !
Agreed. He was a military man in uniform in a plane with military markings, shot down by enemy planes with military markings in war zone fought over by two countries that had declared war on each other.
The P-38, Kelly Johnson's baby, was a magnificent airplane!
This mission was exactly one year after the Doolittle Raid on Japan.
I am a 80 born pilot however I always wanted to be a pilot of the 40s.. pure talent, expertise, experience and courage.. no missiles or BVR engagements.. JUS DOG FIGHTS ❤
Rex Barber was a great man. I knew him when I was much younger. He was my Grandpa's insurance agent. We was very active with Little League Baseball in our county. Never heard of this story until I was an adult.
The pilot of the P38 who attacked Yamamoto's plane said in the 1970s that it was during the test fighting before starting the fight, that a bullet hit the plane's engine.
Thank you Mr Lindberg!
A Gruelling mission and an outstanding presentation.
I do not believe the Japanese account that Yamamoto was seated in his seat still holding his ceremonial sword. The man is shot through the shoulder and jaw and experiences an extreme crash in the jungle but is still holding his sword? No way.
My grandfather was one of the code breakers that intercepted this communication leading tho the death of Yamamoto
There's a great book by Donald Davis called " Lightning Strike" that chronicles the Cactus Air Force in general and the Vengeance mission in particular.
Ein wirklich tolles Video! Die Schilderung der Aktion, die Visualisierung! Einfach toll!
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I’ve seen one of the propellers from Yamamoto’s plane, it’s very cool that it’s in the same city as me.
I hate it when people say this was an assassination. Yamamoto was in uniform and in a military aircraft flying the insignia of a country that the US was in a declared war with. He is just another casualty of war.
I'm somewhat neutral on the assassination description, but your points are well made, and I respect your opinion. There are other comments calling it cold-blooded murder, which just does not seem to take into account that Yamamoto was in uniform and in command of large enemy forces. He was riding in and escorted by armed combat aircraft. He was on a mission to instill morale and fighting spirit into enemy forces. Last but certainly not least, he planned the first surprise attack for what was at the time an undeclared war. I don't recall there being any concern for collateral damage to innocents at Pearl Harbor...
If someone whacked him while he was tending a bonsai tree in his kimono... that might come within a light year of murder...
If anyone doesn't understand what a no-quarter business that WWII in the Pacific theater was, they have a lot to catch up on.
Excellent graphics and correct detail even showing the p38 engines with "Counter Rotating Props" - Excellent
This was retribution. On December 7, 1941 my dad was serving aboard USS Raleigh CL-7 at Pearl Harbor. In the opening minutes Raleigh took a torpedo hit. About an hour later, Raleigh was struck by an armor piercing bomb. Fortunately, the crew succeeded in keeping her afloat. Raleigh returned to service after repairs and served for the duration of WWII.
Early in 1964 my ship's homeport was Apra Harbor, Guam.
On our first cruise out of Guam, we steamed to Rabaul, New Britain. I had the pleasure of riding the back roads around Rabaul while driven by an Aussie who lived there.
Your Dad is in elite group I call "my heroes", & thank him for my freedom.
@@carolecarr5210 Thank you. I'm honored by your encouraging words.
I heard a story once that the then-widowed wife of a sailor killed at Pearl upon hearing of Yamamoto's death took the only alcoholic drink in her lifetime in a toast to it!
Great attention to graphic detail on your presentation, even down to the Marsden mat covered runways the P-38's are taking off from.😀👍
This was not an “assassination”. He was an enemy combatant. He was killed in compliance with the rules of war.
A poor choice of words on their part
Another cracking effort for your video! Well researched and brought to life 👍🏼🇬🇧
Thanks for the great video. Always a pleasure.
Great work. Really nice to see these details and good camera shots!
That was fascinating. Thanks for posting this !
Best recreation of this out there!
Very well done
Thank you for going the extra mile
Love the fact is was confirmed A6m3-32 and their markings were done perfectly
Thanks again
Time to go build models !!!
Now you're talking! 😀
@@duartesimoes508 thank you friend!
Glad to see you putting some Pacific War content on channel.
Seems to me I remember reading somewhere that they flew the same mission for several days afterward so that the Japanese wouldn’t know that we had broken their code. Any input ?
Absolutely.
You are 100% correct. They did not want the Japs to think Yamamoto's death was related to intelligence. They wanted to guarantee that the Japs believe it was just a chance encounter of American planes.
Great graphics and excellent learning experience. Thank you
What a great video. You told the story well. I watched it three times.
Man, I love the graphics in your video. Well done. 👍
Excellent documentary! Many thanks!
The death of Yamamoto was not an assignation in the illegal sense. It was an air battle with casualties on both sides. In the long run if Yamamoto had not been killed in battle, he would eventually committed suicide.
I'd say it was an assassination in that the Americans tried to specifically kill him, but he was a legitimate military target, just as any military figure would be. Nothing against the laws of war.
Not sure he would have killed himself at the end. He studied in the US and was fairly well Americanized. He reputedly liked America and wasn't for the attacks against the US. But he did as he was told.
But it's pointless to argue the point because it was moot after he was killed.
Good point. The Americans saved him from committing the sin of suicide at the end of the war. Probably hung though for war crimes.
Ah, IL-2. Brings back wonderful memories. I've even flown that mission in that game with my squad my way back to the day. A game well ahead of its time.
Honestly, great job using the cinematic view in the game! You did a great job capturing this. Also, kudos to any human pilots you had flying the aircraft for this.
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Fantastic video!!!!
Great video & story thank you 👍
Amazing work!
I love your videos. Keep up your work ❤️
Good clean job. Thank you guys.
Great vid! I never knew how Yamamoto was shot down, thx telling this story! :)
Well done.
Nice job.
Thank you.
Great stuff! Hard flying! Well done!
I object to the term "assassinated". Why is killing a Japanese rifleman or a Japanese pilot "KIA" but killing their commander is "assassination". He was a combatant pure and simple.
It may not have been an assassination in the true sense of the word, but is worth considering the similarities between an 'assassination' and a 'targeted killing'. This is a personal creative decision.
@@sotocinematics true so it’s more like taking down Bin laden tactical elimination operation always great to take out a high figure in a rival leadership role
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I agree, it wasn’t an assassination . Nothing but taking out the enemy commander
@@martinbrode7131 Jahwohl mein herring
The P38’s left Kukum airfield, to the east of Henderson Field which is now the local golf course.
This mission was made possible by Charles Lindbergh's discovery of the range-extending method known today as "running lean of peak".
... actually, Lindbergh went to the Pacific theater not before May 1944 and started with the Marine pilots of VMF-222, flying Corsairs. Later, he got to P-38 units, but all this came more than one year after the Yamamoto mission.
Vid was so good I've watched it twice already. 👍
Another excellently done cinematic.
Well crafted, soundtrack well chosen
Awesome video !!!! Great 😊😊😊
Note: the US fighters took off from Kukum airfield next to Henderson field. I unfortunately missed this detail.
This video is slightly late due to significant rendering issues, but it has turned out to be one of my better videos. I hope to continue more videos like this. Also, reuploaded to fix some errors.
Fantastic video 😊
You say late, but its here just in time for the 80th Anniversary! I call that an unintended win :)
Fantastic video as always. The research and quality is top notch, especially with all the skins and such. Masterful.
My favorite so far!
I was texting him during attack. He was swearing non stop. Something about F Americans ?
Don’t sweat it, great contribution.
great video..details delivered in crisp fashion wout verbosity..earned a sub
Some of the best CGI on the net.
Dude , the re-enactments are cool . With todays games & software more of that will get better & better🤘🏼🏁
Great job as always, meticulous in the details 👍
The who-got-him dispute between Lanphier & Barber has been long running but I believe your depiction is among the most accurate.
No. It's not. Both of them fired on the plane so the Army gave both of them half a kill. That happened all the time. Saying that just Barber did it - is bull shit.
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_Superb!_
My uncle was wounded at Pearl Harbor. Getting Yamamoto was payback. However, everything I have read about the man says he would have appreciated the honor of being singled out for vengance and dying in battle.
Yamamoto was against the war between Japan and the USA, being in the USA and knowing its economic potential, which over time will overwhelm the inefficient economy of Japan.
But as a true samurai, he honorably fulfilled his soldierly duty, fighting for his homeland as best as he could, trying at least to postpone the inevitable - Japan's defeat.
@@kakitakenzo5013 Yes he did they tried to assassinate him for being a coward for not wanting to fight the US. But, he followed duty and did his best. I respect him
The surprise and panic that must have been experienced aboard the Japanese plane
The code breakers were Australian service women, “the Garage Girls”, working at Gen McArthur’s HQ in Brisbane, Queensland.
🪖 Fantastic documentary & well produced graphics 📚
Well done video
Excellent as always. My one wrinkle is (sadly) a political one-the use of the term “assassinated.” I have no problem with this term if it means a targeted attack. I do have a problem with it if it casts shade. In terms of legitimacy, Yamamoto’s death wasn’t any more an assassination than the death of any other common soldier of any side killed in combat.
Many of the upper chain of command involved also felt this operation was an "assassination", but followed their orders. Many felt that Yamamoto was a more reasonable voice among the imperialist fanatics in the Japanese command. There is a debate that the war may have ended sooner if Yamamoto was not killed.
@@drewbertola Well, that would be then a third definition of the term. All that may very well be true (we’ll never know about the possibility of a shorter war), but to apply the term as we would, say, to the killing of Abraham Lincoln is out of bounds. A strategically inadvisable military attack, then-but not assassination of the sense most think of it.
@@davidx9901 not my opinion, necessarily, just telling you the feelings and analysis of the ones that were there. Some thought it was, debatably, better to have Yamamoto's voice of reason remain. Hindsight...
@@drewbertola Yes, point taken. Tremendous irony that he was the one who was rubbed out, even at that time.
@@drewbertola In general the Army was more fanatical than the Navy.
There was a US propaganda poster during the war that depicted Yamamoto saying "I am looking forward to dictating peace to the United States in the White House at Washington." This was a misrepresentation: what actually happened is that the Army fanatics had informed Yamamoto of their war aims, and Yamamoto had responded something like "the only way you'll get _that_ is if you march into Washington and dictate peace in the White House."
Glad Barber finally got recognition. Sorry about Hines, it was probably quick.
What difference does it make who actually shot Yamamoto? It was a big team effort. No pilot by himself could have done it.
What matters is that Lanphier tried to make himself look great by lying about it and trying to take credit for something he didn't do. Lanphier's overall time in the military wasn't spectacular and he was just embellishing it.
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You're making my.point. What does it matter? Why keep pushing it? The whole thing was a very large team effort. No Pilot could have shot him down without all the others.
@@douglasturner6153 I don't want a liar like Lanphier profiting from the gallant work of others. And, I'm not trying to make your point.
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Did it without trying. Even if he had been in the right position and shot him you can't take lone credit in an operation like that.
Excellent voice-over.
just a little point of note. the p38s of vengeance, needed a lot of fuel to get to the interception point so yes, they mounted drop tanks. But if you read Dan Hamptons book about the mission, each p38 had one 165-gallon tank and another, much larger 310-gallon tank mounted under the wing roots. This combined with the 38's internal supply would be just enough to get them to the interception point and to do what they needed to do. but all in all, this was a very good representation of the actual mission.
keep up the good work.
Great Vid
Yamamoto paid for what he did at Pearl Harbor with his life. He did it on my grandfather's birthday. Rip Cmdr Carl C. Foster USNR.
It’s insane that they found them with no gps guidance
Nah, it's all in the Maths 😉 Don't skip classes like these blokes th-cam.com/video/XeyfBurShd4/w-d-xo.html 🤭 & maybe heaps load of Luck some call it Divine Grace 😇
Modern aircraft don't use GPS to intercept targets either.
Some planes were equipped with radar at the time.
Yamamoto was a stickler for punctuality. The intercepted Japanese message told the Americans when Yamamoto was due to land and where. The Americans knew where he was taking off from and they knew the route he would have to take due to fuel requirements of the Japanese planes, avoidance of American activity in the area and his schedule. From all this the Americans worked out where he would be and when.
The thing that really got Yamamoto was his predictability.
The Lockheed Lightnings had 1/2 hour of fuel to wait and loiter at the intercept position. As it was they only had to wait a few minutes.
This was a product of great navigation and great timing.
Non of these aircraft had radars.
Lucky
The intelligence gathering that made this mission possible is amazing- for allied planes to even be there blows my mind... and then they have to BOTH be shot down- no way to know FOR SURE with plane Yamamoto is in
And really, the Japanese should have realized their codes were broken because of this mission. The US got away with it, but I'm not sure the reward was worth the risk.
@@GermanShepherd1983 Yes it was.
I read that the P38 fighter wings at Guadal Canal were coached by Charles Lindbergh (off Transatlantic crossing fame) to get optimum fuel efficiency and thereby range. This factor was critical in allowing the intercept to take place.
Years later the bomber was found and Yamamoto’s body found.
Both the bomber and Yamamoto's body were found at the time. According to Walter Boyne's "Clash of Wings", Yamamoto's ashes were returned to Japan after his death. It is possible that the wreck of the Betty's location was lost, then found later.
Yamamoto's body was found and recovered the next day.
You are correct sir , Charles Lindbergh showed them they could run the engines in a leaner condition than they had been trained thus making the mission possible
Fascinating! Thanks for that detail.
No Charles Lindbergh was in the Pacific in 1944, a year after this battle. But he did help teach the pilots to use their planes better- P38 and Corsairs.
Excellent video. But nobody went to help Hine when he was in trouble ??? poor effort.
This is the first info I’ve seen that showed what happened to the one missing p38
THX !!!
While stationed on the Island of Okinawa in the early 90's, a building we used to frequent on Camp. Lester had a large painting of Yamamoto. I worked with an older Japanese gentlemen. Every time we walked by that picture he saluted Yamamoto - with a very prominent middle finger. He had a particular disdain for him after what he'd witnessed as a child.
Just getting to the rendezvous point is tough enough … then you gotta get onto an all out air fight 400+ miles away and get home.. I can’t get over how tough my dads generation was.. they were the high water mark of our culture..
And don't forget the precision timing.
@@andrewvelonis5940 what you mean precision timing!!?! They were a minute early to the rendezvous point !!! Gotta do better than that!! Ha!
Lanphier always stated the kill was his credit. The mission results were kept secret untill the end of the war. Lanphier's youngest brother Charlie was shot at the same spot, leading a flight of Corsairs in an attack to the airfield were Yamamoto was expected some weeks before. The American bailed out and died in a Japanese Pow camp before the war was over.
There's been controversy for a long time. Lanphier put in the first claim for credit, but over time, according to several sources, it's more likely that Barber's shots took down the Betty.
I've never heard that about Lanphier's brother. Amazing.
@@gregmead2967 Charlie Lanphier was in VMF-214, Pappy Boyington's Black Sheep. As they were both based on 'Cactus' at the time. Tom Lanphier came over to see his brother and party with the Blacksheep after that mission. Tom let spill about the mission, and Boyington's people got in trouble with G2 for knowing too much. Charlie Lanphier's F4U was shot down later. It is unknown whether the Japanese knew they had the brother of Adm Yamamoto's killer. [Or one of them.]
@@gregmead2967 I knew he was in captivity. Wasn't aware that he did not survive it. 🙁
@@duartesimoes508 Mortality rate in Japanese POW camps was 30-40%, 2% in German POW camps. That says a lot.
@@HootOwl513 I think the Japanese never knew.
I have enough respect for the fact that Yamamotu's knowledge of Harvard led him to advise the Emperor not to attack the USA, that I am pleased by the fact that he died honorably in war, instead of suffering the ignominy of Japan's military when the entire Empire admitted defeat.
We were of course better off that Japan no longer had his military skills.
Targeting his aircraft was a Good Idea.
P-38's ....what a marvellous aircraft!
I was trying to figure out what happened to the sword Yamamoto was carrying. The crash site was found by a Japanese Army patrol. Supposedly, according to their records, the admiral's seat had been ejected and he was found sitting upright and still clenching his katana in a death grip. It seems a rather dignified outcome. Who knows what actual mayhem they encountered at the crash site. The sword incidentally was one his brother had made for him as a gift in the 1930s. It was delivered back to his family and allegedly has damage from .50 caliber rounds to it. That airplane is still in the jungle, by the way, which is surprising considering its immense historical value.
Since you said the sword was delivered back to his family, why are you also wondering what happened to it?? Obviously, it must still be with his family!
Yeah, they found the bombers without gps, inertial navigation, or any other electronic navigation gizmos. It’s called old fashion flying using a compass and a map. You figure out the course you’ll take and compute how long it’ll take to get there using old fashioned math. I seriously doubt most pilots could do it now. They’re too dependent on electronics nowadays.
All Private and Commercial license written tests and flight tests in Canada have cross country flight planning sections which have to be completed using solely paper maps, pencils and old fashion computation techniques. It’s hammered into us so we can rely on it if we lose avionics just as you say!
It seems incredidle that the timing could be so spot on. Those American pilots are real heroes, especially the one that was killed. RIP!!!
The 3D planes make it much to watch about this story once again.....l just Sub'ed to this channel....Thanks so much...l am in my 80's and a Old Navy Flying Shoe🇺🇸
Delicious, Soto, simply delicious. Thank you so much for all the work.
May I suggest that you remind viewers to sub and leave comments, you have way too few subs for this level of work.
About a year ago I watched an interview with a '38 pilot who was on the base but not a participant in the raid. He said when the pilots got back they drove around in a jeep yelling that they had got Yamamoto. The base commander ordered them to his tent and they assumed they were to be commended but instead he called them an angry string of names and told them to get out.
The attack was supposed to be happen-chance, to announce that we knew he was on one of the planes was to also announce that we could read Japanese code.
If I can find the interview I'll post it later.
But again, very well done on all your efforts.
Thankyou, Ive looked into the reports and found the same information. I believe the British were also furious with the Americans for the same reason and suspended intelligence reports temporarily,
I met one of the lawyers of the two pilots that was under dispute back in the 1990s, while I was a docent at a fighter aircraft museum.
Thank you for the suggestion on subs and comments... I would have never thought of doing so, if I enjoy a creator's content. Always love listening to someone whine and beg EVERY video they post to LIKE, SUB, and SHARE... it doesn't even get 'annoying', video after video, smh.
It was a great video, though.
Awesome 😎
Beautiful. Yamamoto had to go and it's wonderful. His plane in flame. Remember Pearl Harbor.
Hated the Japanese during WWII. They were brutal savages
Supreme scum. Germans not much. The Germans conducted warfare fair and square. Not talking political agenda
80 years ago coming up on the anniversary !!
Great timing I recently read the book by Dan Hampton on this.
HOLY ISHT! I first read about this over 30 years ago around age 11 and I am just now learning that three people on the second bomber SURVIVED??? History is amazing. 🙂
Interesting to note that the “great” Yamamoto’s directed Pearl Harbor surprise attack missed the U.S. Submarine pens, the Naval oil tanker facilities, the Ship’s repair facilities and the building that housed the U.S. code breakers and their code breaking machines.
The U.S. submarine fleet destroyed 55 percent of the Japanese Merchant fleet and a large number of warships which brought intense shortages of food, oil and other items essential for their Military Machine and Civilian population. The repair facilities salvaged many of the damaged U.S. battleships which enabled them to join the Pacific War. The oil facilities were instrumental in fueling the U.S. Navy and getting them out to sea especially with oil tankers fueling their ships while out on Sea.
But the most important mistake was leaving the U.S. code breakers able to decipher the Japanese Naval codes which was instrumental in the Japanese defeat at Midway and was instrumental in knowing when Yamamoto’s plane was flying, at the same exact time and place for the U.S. fighters to kill him.
His “Big Victory” signed his own Death Warrant.
Did the Japanese know of the code breakers' existence at that time? If not, then--of course--there would be no mission to bomb something they knew nothing about.
Not to mention completely missing all the carriers, because they were 200 miles away on maneuvers… 😄
I'm glad they got him to this day I have not time for these people for the havoc they caused in the past!!!
I actally got Rex Barber's P-38 "Miss Virginia" in my collection.
I read Operation Vengeance: The Astonishing Aerial Ambush That Changed World War II by Dan Hampton an interesting tale of the shoot down.