- Besby Holmes
Lieutenant Colonel Besby Frank Holmes, 1917-2006, a
World War II fighter pilot who in 1943 took part in the famous -- and famously controversial -- mission to kill legendary Japanese admiralIsoroku Yamamoto , who planned the attack onPearl Harbor . Holmes died of a stroke July 23 at Marin General Hospital inGreenbrae, California .External links
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/26/AR2006072601868.html]
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