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ORIGINAL: warspite1

Where was his plane knocked out of the sky?

What aircraft type did the shooting?

Yamamoto was leaving Rabaul and i guess he was shot down by a P38 lightning.

ORIGINAL: micheljq

ORIGINAL: warspite1

Where was his plane knocked out of the sky?

What aircraft type did the shooting?

Yamamoto was leaving Rabaul and i guess he was shot down by a P38 lightning.

Warspite1

Mmm, sorry but I can't give you leaving Rabaul I'm afraid michelq. You are correct though re the P-38 being responsible [:)]

ORIGINAL: warspite1
Where was his plane knocked out of the sky?

The Solomons

ORIGINAL: terje439

ORIGINAL: warspite1
Where was his plane knocked out of the sky?

The Solomons

Warspite1

Looking for something a little more exact Terje439, but you are in the right part of the world.

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: terje439

ORIGINAL: warspite1
Where was his plane knocked out of the sky?

The Solomons

Warspite1

Looking for something a little more exact Terje439, but you are in the right part of the world.

Over New-Guinea?

Terje was closer

ORIGINAL: warspite1

Who shot down Isoroku Yamamoto?

Where was his plane knocked out of the sky?

What aircraft type did the shooting?

When was it?

It was Lamphier (or his wingman I'm not really sure without googling it), onboard a P-38G, and Yamamoto was on an inspection tour, flown in a G4M1 Betty from Rabaul to the Salomon, and when he was shot down by the long ranged P-38 mission, he was about to land on the southern tip of Bougainville Island, I'm not sure if it is Buna.
The story don't tell if he died on the crash or under the Lightnings' gunfire, but on that 18 april 1943 the fortune definitely stopped smiling to the Japanese.

ORIGINAL: Froonp

ORIGINAL: warspite1

Who shot down Isoroku Yamamoto?

Where was his plane knocked out of the sky?

What aircraft type did the shooting?

When was it?

It was Lamphier (or his wingman I'm not really sure without googling it), onboard a P-38G, and Yamamoto was on an inspection tour, flown in a G4M1 Betty from Rabaul to the Salomon, and when he was shot down by the long ranged P-38 mission, he was about to land on the southern tip of Bougainville Island, I'm not sure if it is Buna.
The story don't tell if he died on the crash or under the Lightnings' gunfire, but on that 18 april 1943 the fortune definitely stopped smiling to the Japanese.

Warspite1

1. Correct it was Captain Thomas Lamphier
2. The plane was on its way from Rabaul to Ballale Island, in the Solomons. It was over Bougainville when intercepted by the US aircraft. The plane crashed in the jungle near Buin, Bougainville.
3. It was a Lightning P-38G

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Froonp

ORIGINAL: warspite1

Who shot down Isoroku Yamamoto?

Where was his plane knocked out of the sky?

What aircraft type did the shooting?

When was it?

It was Lamphier (or his wingman I'm not really sure without googling it), onboard a P-38G, and Yamamoto was on an inspection tour, flown in a G4M1 Betty from Rabaul to the Salomon, and when he was shot down by the long ranged P-38 mission, he was about to land on the southern tip of Bougainville Island, I'm not sure if it is Buna.
The story don't tell if he died on the crash or under the Lightnings' gunfire, but on that 18 april 1943 the fortune definitely stopped smiling to the Japanese.

Warspite1

1. Correct it was Captain Thomas Lamphier
2. The plane was on its way from Rabaul to Ballale Island, in the Solomons. It was over Bougainville when intercepted by the US aircraft. The plane crashed in the jungle near Buin, Bougainville.
3. It was a Lightning P-38G

There is a controversy as to be sure it was Lamphier, because I think there were 2 Betty in the Japanese flight, and it's not sure inside which one Yamamoto was, and not sure Lamphier downed both.

ORIGINAL: Froonp

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Froonp


It was Lamphier (or his wingman I'm not really sure without googling it), onboard a P-38G, and Yamamoto was on an inspection tour, flown in a G4M1 Betty from Rabaul to the Salomon, and when he was shot down by the long ranged P-38 mission, he was about to land on the southern tip of Bougainville Island, I'm not sure if it is Buna.
The story don't tell if he died on the crash or under the Lightnings' gunfire, but on that 18 april 1943 the fortune definitely stopped smiling to the Japanese.

Warspite1

1. Correct it was Captain Thomas Lamphier
2. The plane was on its way from Rabaul to Ballale Island, in the Solomons. It was over Bougainville when intercepted by the US aircraft. The plane crashed in the jungle near Buin, Bougainville.
3. It was a Lightning P-38G

There is a controversy as to be sure it was Lamphier, because I think there were 2 Betty in the Japanese flight, and it's not sure inside which one Yamamoto was, and not sure Lamphier downed both.

Warspite1

The story I heard was that Lt Rex Barber shot down the other Betty that carried Ugaki (although the latter survived)

Thomas George Lanphier, Jr. (November 27, 1915 – November 26, 1987) was a Colonel and World War II fighter pilot who was first solely, then partially credited with shooting down the plane carrying Admiral Yamamoto, the commander in chief of the Japanese Imperial Navy.


[/align][/align]Captain Lanphier’s wingman Leutenant Rex T. Barber shared credit for shooting down Yamamoto.


It was only after Lanphier's death that an organized campaign began to nullify his half-credit for the victory and award full credit to his wingman.

[:D] So either answer is correct or wrong. [:D]


Immediately on landing (his plane was so short on fuel that one engine quit during landing rollout) Lanphier again put in a claim for shooting down the bomber, relating that when he turned to engage the escort Zeroes he shot the wing off one, flipped upside down as he circled back towards the bombers, and saw the lead bomber turning a circle below him. He stated he came out of his turn at a right angle to the circling bomber and fired, blowing off its right wing. He stated that he witnessed Barber shoot down another bomber which also crashed in the jungle. Holmes put in a claim for the Betty that crashed into the water, so it was assumed that three bombers had been downed. The fifteen surviving pilots were not debriefed after the mission because this formal interrogation did not exist in the procedures on Guadalcanal at that time, and thus it was never formally established that no one else witnessed Lanphier's claim.

The crash site and body of Admiral Yamamoto were found the next day in the jungle north of the coastal site of the former Australian patrol post and Catholic mission of Buin (which was re-established, after the war, several kilometres inland) by a Japanese search and rescue party, led by Army engineer Lieutenant Hamasuna. According to Hamasuna, Yamamoto had been thrown clear of the plane's wreckage, his white-gloved hand grasping the hilt of his katana, still upright in his seat under a tree. Hamasuna said Yamamoto was instantly recognizable, head dipped down as if deep in thought. A post-mortem of the body disclosed that Yamamoto received two wounds, one to the back of his left shoulder and one to his left lower jaw that exited above his right eye. Whether the admiral initially survived the crash has been a matter of controversy in Japan.

According to wiki (if you can trust wiki) Rex Barber is officially credited with the sole kill of Yamamoto.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_ ... ontroversy

and the age old problem rears its ugly head again..... Different sources different answers....ho hum.

How about the The New York Times then?
 
The New York Times ~ Rex T. Barber pilot who downed Yamamoto dies at 84

Following Yamamoto's death, who succeeded him as Commander of the Combined Fleet?

Where, and how, did Admiral Chuichi Nagumo (of Kido Butai fame) meet his end?

Who succeeded Hideki Tojo as Prime Minister of Japan?

What was the event that directly led to Hideki Tojo's resignation from the post of Prime Minister?

Saipan was the resigning issue.
Nagumo might have been in line to take the fleet.  No idea if he ever did.
Don't know the rest.

ORIGINAL: ezz

Saipan was the resigning issue.
Nagumo might have been in line to take the fleet.  No idea if he ever did.
Don't know the rest.

Warspite1

The loss of Saipan in the Marianas was indeed the incident that led to Tojo's resignation (although given the way the war was going, this was simply the straw that broke the camel's back!!).

By the time Yamamoto was killed, Nagumo's star had well and truly ceased to rise and (as far as I understand it) he was never considered as a replacement for Yamamoto.