soc.history.war.world-war-ii

On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:17:52 -0400, "rhino"
wrote:

>While all of the major wartime leaders faced issues of personal security,
>how many assasination attempts initiated by foreign governments did each
>major leader experience?
>
During wartime...can it be called 'assassination'? Certainly the
Americans targeted and singled out Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.

On April 14th, 1943 U.S. Naval Intelligence in Hawaii discovered a
missive that the admiral would be inspecting forward area troops in
Bougainville and the Shortland Islands.

Now when word reached Captain Ellis M. Zacharias at naval headquarters
in Washington, he went to the Secretary of the Navy to persuade him to
shoot Adm. Yamamoto's plane down. - redvet