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ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget From Wikipedia: "The crash site and body of Yamamoto were found the next day in the jungle of the island of Bougainville by a Japanese search and rescue party, led by army engineer Lieutenant Hamasuna. According to Hamasuna, Yamamoto had been thrown clear of the plane's wreckage, his white-gloved hand grasping the hilt of his katana, still upright in his seat under a tree. Hamasuna said Yamamoto was instantly recognizable, head dipped down as if deep in thought. A post-mortem of the body disclosed that Yamamoto had received two 0.50-caliber bullet wounds, one to the back of his left shoulder and another to his left lower jaw that exited above his right eye. The Japanese navy doctor examining the body determined that the head wound killed Yamamoto. The more violent details of Yamamoto's death were hidden from the Japanese public. The medical report was whitewashed, changed "on orders from above", according to biographer Hiroyuki Agawa. Yamamoto's staff cremated his remains at Buin and his ashes were returned to Tokyo aboard the battleship Musashi, Yamamoto's last flagship. Yamamoto was given a full state funeral on June 5, 1943,[27] where he received, posthumously, the title of Marshal and was awarded the Order of the Chrysanthemum (1st Class). He was also awarded Nazi Germany's Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords. Some of his ashes were buried in the public Tama Cemetery, Tokyo (‘½–€—쉀) and the remainder at his ancestral burial grounds at the temple of Chuko-ji in Nagaoka City." I can tell you that any account that describes Yamamoto's body dying in dignified repose was nonsense. If thrown free from the crash, his body would quite likely have suffered extraordinary damage. If hit with a .50 round that went through his head from lower jaw to right orbit it would have caused an enormous chasm of an exit wound, likely taking much of the cranium and brain ejecta with it. +1 Read far too many clinical records. There was a good reason for the local cremation ... The body was likely only identifiable due to uniform remnants. I'll leave it at that. You want a clearer picture, go to the NTSB website, find a small plane crash, access the coroner/ME reports on the victims and have a copy of your favorite medical dictionary with you. Grisly is the nicest word I can use to describe what you will read. While a free-fall tumbling body reaches a terminal velocity (~100mph depending upon a whole host of factors) quite quickly limiting the impact, a plane (even damaged) has a far greater terminal velocity, particularly once the wings separate. The human body does not withstand +20g impacts with grace ...
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