Besby Holmes

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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 admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor. Holmes died of a stroke July 23 at Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, California.

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