Operation Vengeance

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Operation Vengeance Killing Admiral Yamamoto

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Author : Edgar Wollstone
language : en
Publisher: AJS
Release Date :

Operation Vengeance Killing Admiral Yamamoto written by Edgar Wollstone and has been published by AJS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with History categories.

The humiliating attack on Pearl Harbor had left a sour taste in the mouths of Americans. It had to be avenged. A direct attack on the mastermind behind the dastardly attack would be the sweetest revenge. A plan was chalked up and they gave it a befitting moniker-Operation Vengeance. A story of revenge unfolds in mid-air over the skies of Bougainville when the United States of America showed the chutzpah to take on the highest-ranking Japanese official-Isoroku Yamamoto. Operation Vengeance was an aerial ambush like none other. On the early hours of April 18, 1943, the skies above the Solomon Islands began to split apart with the thunderous roars of fighters and the mighty P-38 Lightning squads. The Japanese fighters are caught unawares; they ripped through the azure clouds, cleaving the stillness of ephemeral tranquility, attempting to dodge the deadly shots being fired from the enemy P-38 and defend their Commander. Two Bettys were covered by three fighter escorts, but which one had the Admiral? The P-38 Lightning pilots had no clue. The wind speed, the weather conditions, the enemy pilots’ efficacy, all these factors had to work in a magical unison for the mission to work. The capricious weather and the Pacific winds were the least reliable and they could only count on their luck. But their target had one quality they could rely on, Yamamoto’s fanatical punctuality. Operation Vengeance is a story of revenge, pride, valor, patriotism, and incredible chutzpah. When the enemy breaks all rules and attempts to stab from the back, there is no time to hem and haw; the enemy needs to get a taste of its own medicine.

Operation Vengeance

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Author : Robert Crane
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965

Operation Vengeance written by Robert Crane and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Drug traffic categories.

Operation Vengeance

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Author : Mike Ross
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-01-02

Operation Vengeance written by Mike Ross and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-02 with categories.

The "Top Gun" story of WWII where young American fighter pilot Major John Mitchell is given the most top secret mission of the war, to fly the longest aerial intercept in aviation history and shoot down the Japanese Supreme Commander In Chief, Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto, mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Operation Vengeance

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Author : Dan Hampton
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2020-08-11

Operation Vengeance written by Dan Hampton and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-11 with History categories.

"Operation Vengeance is colorful, intimate, eye-popping history, delivered at a breakneck pace. I loved it." –Lynn Vincent The New York Times bestselling author of Viper Pilot delivers an electrifying narrative account of the top-secret U.S. mission to kill Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese commander who masterminded Pearl Harbor. In 1943, the United States military began to plan one of the most dramatic secret missions of World War II. Its code name was Operation Vengeance. Naval Intelligence had intercepted the itinerary of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet, whose stealth attack on Pearl Harbor precipitated America’s entry into the war. Harvard-educated, Yamamoto was a close confidant of Emperor Hirohito and a brilliant tactician who epitomized Japanese military might. On April 18th, the U.S. discovered, he would travel to Rabaul in the South Pacific to visit Japanese troops, then fly to the Japanese airfield at Balalale, 400 miles to the southeast. Set into motion, the Americans’ plan was one of the most tactically difficult operations of the war. To avoid detection, U.S. pilots had to embark on a circuitous, 1,000-mile odyssey that would test not only their skills but the physical integrity of their planes. The timing was also crucial: the slightest miscalculation, even by a few minutes—or a delay on the famously punctual Yamamoto’s end—meant the entire plan would collapse, endangering American lives. But if these remarkable pilots succeeded, they could help turn the tide of the war—and greatly boost Allied morale. Informed by deep archival research and his experience as a decorated combat pilot, Operation Vengeance focuses on the mission’s pilots and recreates the moment-by-moment drama they experienced in the air. Hampton recreates this epic event in thrilling detail, and provides groundbreaking evidence about what really happened that day. Operation Vengeance includes 30 black-and-white images.

We Killed Yamamoto

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Author : Si Sheppard
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-08-20

We Killed Yamamoto written by Si Sheppard and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-20 with History categories.

He masterminded the most devastating surprise attack against the United States in its history. He was a marked man in the war that followed. A key intelligence breakthrough enabled the military to pinpoint his location. An elite team was assembled and charged not with his capture and subsequent trial but with his execution. Osama bin Laden? No – this was Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet during World War II. This new title analyses the origins, implementation, and outcomes of Operation Vengeance, the long-range fighter interception of Admiral Yamamoto's transport aircraft that sent him to his death on 18th April, 1943. Author Si Sheppard examines every angle of the operation in detail, including the role of intelligence work in pinpointing the time and location of Yamamoto's flight, the chain of command at the highest level of the US political and military establishment who ordered the attack, and the technical limitations that had to be overcome in planning and conducting the raid. It also provides a close study of the aerial combat involved in completing the mission, offering a holistic exploration of the operation which avenged Pearl Harbor.

Operation Vengeance

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Killing The Enemy

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Author : Adam Leong Kok Wey
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-09-28

Killing The Enemy written by Adam Leong Kok Wey and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-28 with Political Science categories.

During World War II, the British formed a secret division, the 'SOE' or Special Operations Executive, in order to support resistance organisations in occupied Europe. It also engaged in 'targeted killing' - the assassination of enemy political and military leaders. The unit is famous for equipping its agents with tools for use behind enemy lines, such as folding motorbikes, miniature submarines and suicide pills disguised as coat buttons. But its activities are now also gaining attention as a forerunner to today's 'extra-legal' killings of wartime enemies in foreign territory, for example through the use of unmanned drones. Adam Leong's work evaluates the effectiveness of political assassination in wartime using four examples: Heydrich's assassination in Prague (Operation Anthropoid); the daring kidnap of Major General Kreipe in Crete by Patrick Leigh Fermor; the failed attempt to assassinate Rommel, known as Operation Flipper; and the American assassination of General Yamamoto.

Ambush Yamamoto The Mirage Of Heroism

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Author : Robert Bond
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-11-10

Ambush Yamamoto The Mirage Of Heroism written by Robert Bond and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-10 with categories.

THIS BOOK MAY NOT BE THE LAST, BUT IT IS THE LATEST TO TRY TO RESOLVE THE 71 YEAR PUZZLE OF JUST WHO DID SHOOT DOWN ADMIRAL ISOROKU YAMAMOTO 0N 18 APRIL 1943? LT. REX T. BARBER OR CAPT. THOMAS G. LAMPHIER JR.? THE AUTHOR WILL TAKE YOU FROM COLLEGE, THROUGH BASIC FLIGHT TRAINING, THROUGH EARLY SQUADRON TRAINING NEAR SAN FRANCISCO AND ADVANCED TRAINING ON FIJI. BOTH BARBER AND LAMPHIER WOULD FLY P-39'S P-38'S AS MEMBERS OF THE CACTUS AIR FORCE STATIONED AT HENDERSON FIELD ON GUADALCANAL. ON 18 APRIL 1943 IN AN ATTEMPT TO SURPRISE, INTERCEPT AND SHOOT DOWN A JAPANESE BOMBER CARRYING SUPREME NAVAL ADMIRAL YAMAMOTO. THEY LIFTED OFF FROM HENDERSON FIELD ON THIS EASTER SUNDAY WITH 14 OTHER P-38'S TO ASSASSINATE THE ARCHITECT OF THE SNEAK ATTACK OF PEARL HARBOR THAT BROUGHT WAR IN THE PACIFIC BETWEEN JAPAN AND AMERICA. WE CELEBRATE THE SUCESS OF OPERATION VENGEANCE, BUT ANOTHER WAR BROKE OUT OVER WHO SHOT DOWN ADMIRAL YAMAMOTO? INCLUDED ARE 104 PHOTOGRAPHS, DIAGRAMS, ILLUSTRATIONS, AND MAPS TO ASSIST YOU IN UNRAVELING THIS PUZZLE.

Vengeance

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Author : George Jonas
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2005-12

Vengeance written by George Jonas and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12 with History categories.

Discloses the Israeli plan to assassinate the known terrorist leaders responsible for the Munich massacre of Israeli athletes and chronicles the story of the hit-squad's leader, a man morally destroyed by his mission.

Lightning Strike

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Author : Donald A. Davis
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2007-04-01

Lightning Strike written by Donald A. Davis and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-01 with History categories.

This is the story of the fighter mission that changed World War II. It is the true story of the man behind Pearl Harbor--Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto--and the courageous young American fliers who flew the million-to-one suicide mission that shot him down. Yamamoto was a cigar-smoking, poker-playing, English-speaking, Harvard-educated expert on America, and that intimate knowledge served him well as architect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the next sixteen months, this military genius, beloved by the Japanese people, lived up to his prediction that he would run wild in the Pacific Ocean. He was unable, however, to deal the fatal blow needed to knock America out of the war, and the shaken United States began its march to victory on the bloody island of Guadalcanal. Donald A. Davis meticulously tracks Yamamoto's eventual rendezvous with death. After American code-breakers learned that the admiral would be vulnerable for a few hours, a desperate attempt was launched to bring him down. What was essentially a suicide mission fell to a handful of colorful and expendable U.S. Army pilots from Guadalcanal's battered "Cactus Air Force": - Mississippian John Mitchell, after flunking the West Point entrance exam, entered the army as a buck private. Though not a "natural" as an aviator, he eventually became the highest-scoring army ace on Guadalcanal and the leader of the Yamamoto attack. - Rex Barber grew up in the Oregon countryside and was the oldest surviving son in a tightly knit churchgoing family. A few weeks shy of his college graduation in 1940, the quiet Barber enlisted in the U.S. Army. - "I'm going to be President of the United States," Tom Lanphier once told a friend. Lanphier was the son of a legendary fighter squadron commander and a dazzling storyteller. He viewed his chance at hero status as the start of a promising political career. - December 7, 1941, found Besby Holmes on a Pearl Harbor airstrip, firing his .45 handgun at Japanese fighters. He couldn't get airborne in time to make a serious difference, but his chance would come. - Tall and darkly handsome, Ray Hine used the call sign "Heathcliffe" because he resembled the brooding hero of Wuthering Heights. He was transferred to Guadalcanal just in time to participate in the Yamamoto mission---a mission from which he would never return. Davis paints unforgettable personal portraits of men in combat and unravels a military mystery that has been covered up at the highest levels of government since the end of the war.