What the records say
- When
- 18 Apr 1943
- Kind
- Assassination
- Coordinates
- 6.24° S, 155.38° E
- Description
- 1943 American military operation to kill Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
4 sources record it
- Wikidata: revolutions and assassinationsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Американская операция «Месть» по ликвидации Исороку Ямамото, главнокомандующего объединённым флотом Японской империи”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Papúa Nueva Guinea ―en el marco de la Segunda Guerra Mundial― el almirante Isoroku Yamamoto muere al ser derribado su aparato por los cazas estadounidenses…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “山本五十六大将搭乗の一式陸攻が米軍機の攻撃を受け戦死(海軍甲事件)。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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