Operation Vengeance Revenge was the American military operation Military_operation to kill Killing Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto of the Imperial Japanese Navy on April 18 , 1943 , during the Solomon Islands campaign in the Pacific Theater of World War II .

Isoroku Yamamoto , commander of the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy , was killed Killing on Bougainville Island when his transport bomber aircraft was shot down Use_firearm by United States Army Air Forces fighter aircraft operating Being_in_operation from Kukum Field on Guadalcanal .