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| Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto |
70 Years Ago—Apr. 18,
1943: “Palm Sunday
Massacre”—US Ninth Air Force fighters shoot down 50 German transport planes
bound for North Africa. Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of Japanese Combined
Fleet, shot down and killed by US Thirteenth Air Force P-38s over Bougainville.
