Episode 25: Yamomoto's Gambit

Back in the Pacific in mid April 1942 the Nagumo's strike group has just returned from raids in the Indian Ocean and Doolittle has delivered a strategically insignificant yet psychologically devastating blow to the japanese. In a perhaps hubristic response Admiral Yamamoto vowed to push American Forces even further from japan to prevent another embarrassing strike from landing so close to the sacred ears of the emperor.