01625cam a2200277 4500 264461925 TxAuBib 20160609120000.0 040811s2005||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2004051293 9780312309060 0312309066 9780312309060 TxAuBib Davis, Don, 1957- A MISSION TO KILL / Donald A. Davis. First edition. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2005. 1 : DVD. Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-370) and index. Admiral Yamamoto was a cigar-smoking, poker-playing, Harvard-educated expert on America, and that knowledge served him well as architect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the next sixteen months, this military genius lived up to his prediction that he would run wild in the Pacific. After American code-breakers learned that the admiral would be vulnerable for a few hours, a handful of colorful and expendable U.S. Army pilots flew the longest over-water fighter mission ever, and ambushed and killed him. The Japanese never won another major naval battle, but the victorious American pilots were tormented for the rest of their lives by what happened that day, a military mystery that has been covered up since the end of the war. 20160609. Yamamoto, Isoroku, 1884-1943 Assassination. World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Pacific Ocean. World War, 1939-1945 Aerial operations, American.