Admiral Chester Nimitz made the call to target him. As Donald A. Davis notes in his book Lightning Strike, the fact that Yamamoto, who carried out the Pearl Harbor attack, was responsible for the ...

THE PORTILLO EXPEDITION: MYSTERY ON BOUGAINVILLE ISLAND examines the circumstances surrounding the death of Isoroku Yamamoto – the Japanese WWII Admiral who planned the Pearl Harbor surprise ...

April 18, 1943: Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto - the architect of Pearl Harbor - was shot down in the South Pacific. His escort pilots failed to protect him from a daring U.S. ambush.