Yamamoto's Last Flight by Stan Stokes. BAT242 but the Wildcat was more

but the Wildcat was more heavily armed and able to take a lot more punishment than the Mitsubishis

but 56 of its airmen had been killed

Gleneagles by Fraser Shaw (P) Original painting by Fraser Shaw

Image size 14 inches x 11 inches (36cm x 28cm)

Bodmin at Ropley by Chris Woods

Yamamoto's Last Flight by Stan Stokes. BAT242 but the Wildcat was moreSTK0038. Yamamoto's Last Flight by Stan Stokes. On April 18, 1943, in one of the more interesting, daring, and ultimately controversial missions of WW II, a flight of P 38s under the command of Major John Mitchell, intercepted and destroyed the aircraft carrying Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander in Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet, and the mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor. American code breakers had intercepted and translated a message