Present Day
The tail number of Yamamoto's aircraft was T1-323. The wreckage and crash site are now tourist attractions near Buin, Bougainville Island. The left wing of this aircraft was subsequently removed intact and then placed in the Isoroku Yamamoto Family Museum in Nagaoka, Japan because of scavenging from the crash site.
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