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1 day ago · Yamamoto's primary strategic goal was the elimination of America's carrier forces, which he regarded as the principal threat to the overall Pacific campaign. This concern was acutely heightened by the Doolittle Raid on 18 April 1942, in which 16 United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) B-25 Mitchell bombers launched from USS Hornet bombed targets in Tokyo and several other Japanese cities.
- 4-7 June 1942
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3 days ago · Outcome: U.S. warplanes intercepted a plane carrying Japanese admiral and Pearl Harbor attack architect Isoroku Yamamoto and downed the plane over Bougainville; Operation Chastise Photo by European/FPG/Getty Images. Took place: May 16-17, 1943; Nations involved: Great Britain
3 days ago · Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of the Combined Fleet, was concurrently planning an operation for June that he hoped would lure the U.S. Navy's carriers, none of which had been damaged in the Pearl Harbor attack, into a decisive showdown in the central Pacific near Midway Atoll.
4 days ago · When it became clear, in 1941, that the British and the Dutch as well as the Americans must be attacked, a new and daring war plan was successfully sponsored by the commander in chief of the Combined Fleet, Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku.
1 day ago · Yamamoto Isoroku, who would later go on to become an Admiral in the Imperial Navy and the planner of the attack on Pearl Harbour, was brought in to think of ways of reducing these accidents. Then a 40 year-old captain, he lived in Tsuchiura, just next to the old temple,for a year and three months (beginning in 1924), and became closely acquainted with Jinryu-Ji`s head-priest, Akimoto Baiho.
5 days ago · Isoroku Yamamoto (April 4, 1884–April 18, 1943) was the commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet during World War II. It was Yamamoto who planned and executed the attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Initially against war, Yamamoto nevertheless planned and participated in many of the most important bat...
4 days ago · The Yamamoto quote in this letter is said to be, "to invade the United States would prove most difficult because behind every blade of grass is an American with a rifle." People are also...
