Yamamoto / Pyle

[pauke]

On 18 April 1943 Admiral Yamamoto was shot down near Bougainville in the Solomon Islands and in 1945 famous US war correspondent Ernie Pyle was killed on Ie Shima near Okinawa.

[VtwinVince]

The Yamamoto interception was one of the more remarkable missions of the Pacific war.

[Steve Ruppert]

Kia

My uncle Gerrit Ter Haar was KIA on Ie Shima May 2 / he was 19
served with the 77th
regards
steve

( please excuse my interruption on Yamamoto/Pyle thread )

[DennyB]

When I was at Okinawa I wanted to go to Ie Shima but it was Off Limits at the time due to unexploded ordnance and poisonous snakes.

[Dennis J]

On 18 April 1943 Admiral Yamamoto was shot down near Bougainville in the Solomon Islands and in 1945 famous US war correspondent Ernie Pyle was killed on Ie Shima near Okinawa.

My dad has Ernie Pyles cigarette lighter that he had on him the day he was killed.

Dennis J