How One Navigator’s Math Trap Downed Japan’s Top Admiral, The P-38 Intercept | WW2 Inside Histories

It wasn’t luck that killed Yamamoto. It was math.
In April 1943, an American codebreaking station intercepted the most extraordinary message of the Pacific War: “Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto will depart Rabaul at 0600. Arrive Bougainville, 0945.” The man who planned Pearl Harbor — Japan’s greatest naval mind — had just published his flight schedule. To strike him down would mean avenging Pearl Harbor itself. But to act on this information would also reveal the Allies’ most closely guarded secret: their ability to read Japanese codes. The mission was codenamed Operation Vengeance — a 400-mile flight through open ocean, beyond radar and rescue, guided by nothing but mathematics. This is the true story of Lieutenant Doug Canning, the quiet navigator who plotted a “math trap” so precise that sixteen American P-38 Lightnings found Yamamoto’s bomber at the exact minute he said he would arrive. Told in cinematic detail, this episode reveals the impossible precision, the moral weight, and the lasting legacy of the mission that changed the course of the Pacific War.
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