[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from April 15.

John Toland, The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate

[fso301]

My older brother received a gift of a complete set of a British WWII documentary The World At War

One of the segments included the downing of Yamamoto. I seem to recall a P-38 pilot who took part in the ambush said he made what he described as an "impossible" 90 degree crossing shot that brought Yamamoto's Betty down.

I never realized there was a controversy as to which P-38 pilot downed Yamamoto until recently. I still don't fully understand the controversy since for such a mission, the fighters certainly had gun cameras with sufficient film to last the plane's entire ammunition supply.

Perhaps there were two P-38's simultaneously firing but that had never been my understanding.

[Rebelbase]

Isn’t the 2nd sentence of post #3 in error? Doolittle raided Tokyo in 1942, not 1941.