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April 18, 1943

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PRINCETON'S EIGHT DEFEATS RUTGERS; COLUMBIA IS THIRD; Tiger Varsity Oarsmen Victors by 1 1/2 Lengths on Raritan as Eastern Season Opens PAUL IS WINNERS' STROKE Visiting Crews Use Scarlet's Shells -- Lion Freshmen Beat Rutgers Jayvee Rivals PRINCETON'S EIGHT FIRST ON RARITAN

By Robert F. Kelleyspecial To the New York Times

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., April 17 -- Stroked by its bow oar, Ed Paul, the only freshman in the boat, Princeton's varsity eight opened the Eastern rowing season on the Raritan tonight with a length and a half victory over Rutgers, with the Scarlet leading Columbia's first crew home by a similar margin.

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VAST-SCALE RAIDS; Americans Shoot Down Fifty Nazi Fighters, Lose 16 Bombers PILSEN IS A TARGET 600-Plane British Blow Also Rocks Mannheim -- Russians Again Strike BACK FROM ONE OF YESTERDAY'S MANY ROUND-THE-CLOCK RAIDS VAST-SCALE RAIDS MADE ON GERMANY

By Milton Brackerspecial Cable To the New York Times

US fliers raid Bremen; destroy 50 Ger fighters; rept active opposition, good results; RAF bombs Skoda works, Pilsen, and Mannheim-Ludwigshafen area in heaviest raid to date; loses 55 planes; raids Abbeville, St Omer, Le Touquet, Caen and Zeebrugge; fighter sweeps reptd; USSR planes raid Danzig, Koenigsberg and Tilsit; Pilsen raid crew illus; map

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Notable Deaths

Isoroku Yamamoto

1943Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral (born 1884)[†]

Isoroku Yamamoto was an admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and the commander of the Combined Fleet during World War II. He commanded the fleet from 1939 until his death in 1943, overseeing the start of the Pacific War in 1941 and Japan's initial successes and defeats before his plane was shot down by U.S. fighter aircraft over New Guinea.

Historical Events

Operation Vengeance

1943World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.[†]

Operation Vengeance was the American military operation to kill Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto of the Imperial Japanese Navy on 18 April 1943 during the Solomon Islands campaign in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Yamamoto, commander of the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy, was killed near Bougainville Island when his G4M1 transport aircraft was shot down by United States Army Air Forces fighter aircraft operating from Kukum Field on Guadalcanal.