Why did the United States high command order the mission to kill Yamamoto instead of capturing him?

I understand wanting revenge for Pearl Harbor and everything but it seems to me that he would have been more valuable to the US war effort if he was captured since he was a high ranking naval commander in the IJN. I really love the work the work that Indy, Sparticus and everyone else does over there at timeghost! Keep it up! Also Sparticus is the coolest name ever!!!

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I don’t think capturing him was an option when Lockheed Lightnings jumped his zeroes. This is fitting for the current episode as the decoders got the information an him.

See Isoroku which looks like a cool flick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-1XcnV7F7I

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Another one, those people were expert navigators as well as combat pilots. These days some can’t even find their homefield in daylight without GPS. Oops that is in the Buck Rogers future and don’t let Ardala mess with your GPS stettings🤪
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39-yZ_2aao0

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In military pilot training today they are not even taught the basics of navigation except follow the GPS. Pilotage or dead reckoning is a lost skill. That was the primary means of navigation until the 1990s and fine tune the final run in, unless you had a navigator. The new technology is great until it isn’t.

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