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Death of Isoroku Yamamoto
The Death of Isoroku Yamamoto occurred on April 18, 1943 during the Solomon Islands campaign in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Japanese admiral 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 fighter aircraft of the United States of America (U.
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