Jim Downey
speaker
621 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
Jim Downey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And they have.
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The Allies don't only have Yamamoto's destination.
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They have his flight plan, departure time, and even which plane he'll be on.
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Little more than a day after the Japanese first sent it, the intel reaches SYNCPAC headquarters and Admiral Chester Nimitz.
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After reviewing maps and seeing that the head of the Japanese Navy will indeed be flying nearby Allied airspace, he looks to his fleet intelligence officer and asks, do we try to get him?
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Chester wonders, is it wrong to target an enemy commander?
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But Pearl Harbor, Bataan, yeah, those worries fade fast.
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The strategic question is trickier.
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Might the Japanese realize their codes have been broken?
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And Yamamoto has been on such a losing streak since the summer of 1942.
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Maybe it's best to let a losing enemy keep losing.
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After long discussion with his advisors and apocryphally FDR weighing in with a get Yamamoto, Chester is convinced demoralizing Japan by killing their much admired admiral is worth any downside.
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with thoughts toward the sailors entombed in the battleship USS Arizona and so many others now lying in watery graves across the Pacific.
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From the Philippines to Midway and beyond, it's time for Operation Vengeance.
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It's a little past 9.30 a.m., April 18th, 1943.
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Major John Mitchell is soaring through the air in his twin-engine fighter, a Lockheed P-38 Lightning, somewhere near Bougainville Island in the South Pacific.
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The dark-haired, square-jawed Major has flown over 494 miles in two hours this morning, and beside him are 15 other P-38s under his command, all soaring just above sea level, a mere 50 feet above the quiet, hypnotizing waves in stone-cold radio silence.
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It's almost soothing, but falling asleep while piloting a single-seat aircraft is hardly an option.
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Breaking through the early morning mist, John can see Bougainville's green mountains rising in the sky.
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They're a little early, but that's exactly what this 28-year-old Mississippian was looking for.
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