Operation I-Go
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Operation I-Go was an aerial counter-offensive launched by Imperial Japanese forces against Allied forces during the Solomon Islands and New Guinea campaigns in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Ta
Isoroku Yamamoto (far left) and Jinichi Kusaka (center left) supervise air operations from Rabaul during Operation I-Go in April 1943
Japanese aircraft at Rabaul
Kittyhawk fighter aircraft of No. 77 Squadron RAAF at Milne Bay
Operation Vengeance
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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 Wo
Operation I-Go
…the operation to be a success. The operation did not significantly delay Allied preparations for further offensives in the South Pacific. Yamamoto was killed shortly thereafter while traveling to congratulate units that had participated in the operation. Following the Guadalcanal campaign, as well as setbacks…
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto saluting Japanese naval pilots at Rabaul, hours before his death
P-38G Lightnings were the aircraft chosen to carry out the mission.
339th Fighter Squadron personnel of the mission. Back row (l to r): Ames, Graebner, Lanphier, Goerke, Jacobson, Stratton, Long, Anglin. Front row (l to r): Smith, Canning, Holmes, Barber, Mitchell, Kittel, Whitakker. Not pictured: Hine (MIA).
Yamamoto's ashes return to Japan at Kisarazu aboard battleship Musashi on May 23, 1943