Researchers mark death of Pearl Harbor mastermind Yamamoto
(World News USA)

ALBANY, N.Y. - A group from the United States and Japan is trekking to a remote Pacific island jungle to document what is considered one of the most important wreck sites of World War II: where American fighters shot down a Japanese bomber carrying the mastermind of the Pearl Harbor attack. Three members of a New York-based WWII research organization and a Japanese aviation expert plan to visit the crash site on Bougainville, part of Papua New Guinea, Wednesday, the 75th anniversary of Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto´s death. Yamamoto had spent several years in the United States earlier in his military career, studying at Harvard University and admiring America´s industrial might. In the aftermath of...