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Admiral Yamamoto' ashes on board Musashi, 1943.
It fell to Musashi to bring the Admiral's ashes back home to Japan following his death in the mid-air ambush of his plane over Rabaul by American P-38 Lightnings in 1943 (a feat made possible by the cracking of Japanese codes.)
President Roosevelt personally gave the order to kill Yamamoto when the latter's South Pacific inspection tour of Japanese bases became known to the USN intelligence. |
