Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit March 14, 1996, 93-36200 (Rex BARBER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Sheila WIDNALL, Secretary of the Air Force, Defendant-Appellee)

CANBY, Circuit Judge:

This case arises from one of the remarkable events in the Pacific theater of World War II — the long range fighter mission that culminated in the death of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the architect of the attack on Pearl Harbor.