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Operation Vengeance
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Operation Vengeance
Operation
Vengeance
was the
American military
operation to kill Admiral
Isoroku Yamamoto
of the
Imperial Japanese Navy
on April 18, 1943, during the
Solomon Islands campaign
in the
Pacific Theater
of
World War II
and exactly one year following the United States' most direct previous blow to Japan with the
Doolittle Raid
. Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of the Combined Fleet of the
Imperial Japanese Navy
, was killed on
Bougainville Island
when his transport
bomber
aircraft
was shot down by
United States Army Air Forces
fighter aircraft
operating from
Kukum Field
on
Guadalcanal
.
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