As the commander who planned the Pearl Harbor incident in the United States in World War II and caused heavy losses to the US army, Yamamoto Isoroku was naturally remembered by the United States .
In 1943, the United States found him in a plane ready to go to the front, so it quickly sent a fighter plane to intercept him, successfully shot down his plane, and with it, the Japanese chief of staff on another plane, Ugaki, naturally could not avoid being attacked by the United States, but he escaped and successfully returned to the Japanese base.
After the Japanese learned of the destruction of Yamamoto's fifty-six planes, they immediately ordered a search for the whereabouts of Yamamoto Fifty-six, first, to see people die and see corpses, and second, for the sake of the Japanese military's face, Yamamoto Fifty-six could not fall into the hands of the United States.
Extrapolating from the direction of the crash, Yamamoto fifty-six most likely fell on bougainville Island, and the Japanese side split into two groups and began the carpet search operation from two directions.
The first squad searched from the outside in, they searched around in the primeval forest of Bougainville, wandering like headless flies, and the Japanese rewarded those who were the first to find Yamamoto's body, but everyone felt that there was little hope, and they lost that fierce fighting spirit, but Saion lost his horse, and judging from the final outcome, perhaps they were lucky.
The second team consisted of the island's former garrison, who had witnessed the war and knew more about Yamamoto's whereabouts.
Lieutenant Hamasa was the leader of the second team, and he led the soldiers to start the search from the inside.
Inside the jungle, the sky was dark, a group of people searched inside day and night, and finally the kung fu paid off, they found a Japanese-style crash fighter, the corpse of an officer attracted the attention of Hamasa, which should be the target of this operation, and from his corpse to find a notebook with Yamamoto Fifty-Six proved his identity, but when Hamasa shouted out the name, the other soldiers did not seem to hear, continued to search for valuable things on the corpse, and then took it for themselves.
Due to the success of the search, Hamasa was transferred back to the mainland.
A month later, Japan announced the death of Isoroku Yamamoto, but the members of the Hamasa squad that found him were missing.
The only surviving Hamasa was tight-lipped about this, spending the rest of his life in Miyazaki Prefecture, and some people said that Hamasa had confided to him the reason for the disappearance of these people, specifically: after the Japanese army took back the remains of Yamamoto Fifty-Six, found that the valuable things on them were missing, out of resentment against these soldiers, they were sent to the most dangerous front, and finally those people were killed.
It is rare in history that a commander-in-chief can be treated with such undignified treatment by his own soldiers.