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  2. 1 day ago · [7] [8] [9] The U.S. Navy under Admirals Chester W. Nimitz, Frank J. Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy under Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto, Chūichi Nagumo, and Nobutake Kondō north of Midway Atoll, inflicting devastating damage on the Japanese fleet.

    • 4-7 June 1942
    • American victory
  3. Oct 24, 2024 · The fact that America’s carriers were not in port may have been bad luck from a Japanese point of view, but that did not significantly affect Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto’s strategic plan.

  4. 6 days ago · Top image: Last known photograph of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto alive saluting naval pilots at Rabaul, April 18, 1943. (Photographer unknown, 昭和18年4月 / April 1943, Wikicommons)The man perhaps most associated with the “Day of Infamy,” Pearl Harbor attack mastermind Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, was kill...

  5. Oct 21, 2024 · Yamamoto Isoroku Yamamoto Isoroku, commander in chief of Japan's Combined Fleet during World War II. (more) Despite a strategic setback at the Battle of the Coral Sea (May 4–8, 1942), the Japanese had continued with plans to seize the Midway Islands and bases in the Aleutians .

  6. Oct 8, 2024 · Yamamoto Isoroku, commander in chief of the Combined Fleet from 1939, ordered his staff to study the feasibility of a surprise attack by carrier-borne air forces on the U.S. fleet in Pearl Harbor at the outset of a war—an idea that he had long had in mind. Such a crushing blow would, he thought, eliminate the threat of a flank attack by the ...

  7. 3 days ago · The army was to be supported by Japanese naval units, including the Combined Fleet under the command of Isoroku Yamamoto, which was headquartered at Truk. The 17th Army, at that time heavily involved in the Japanese campaign in New Guinea, had only a few units available.

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