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May 21, 2018 · Isoroku Yamamoto. Yamamoto Isoroku (1884-1943) was Commander-in-chief of combined Japanese fleet, who was Japan's greatest naval strategist in World War II.. Yamamoto Isoroku, "the Nelson of the Japanese navy," was originally born Takano Isoroku, sixth son of an impoverished schoolteacher, Takano Teikichi, and his second wife Mineko, on April 4, 1884.
Isoroku Yamamoto (山本 五十六, Yamamoto Isoroku, April 4, 1884 – April 18, 1943) was a Marshal Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II.
Isoroku Yamamoto had had a distinguished naval career. He had entered the Naval Academy at Eta Jima in 1901, at the age of seventeen. In May, 1905, while still a midshipman, he was slightly wounded while serving aboard the Mikasa, Admiral Togo’s flagship, at the battle of Tsushima where the Japanese annihilated the Russian fleet.
Mar 28, 2024 · The shootdown of Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto provides a similar case study. Yamamoto was a star in the Japanese navy, a Harvard-educated visionary who championed aircraft carriers over battleships and conceived the idea to bomb the U.S. fleet at rest in Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
"Combined Fleet Commander Isoroku Yamamoto: Truth of the Pacific War 70 Years Ago") is a 2011 Japanese biographical film about Isoroku Yamamoto, the Imperial Japanese Navy's (IJN) Marshal Admiral and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II. Other English home media titles of the film are The Admiral, [5] and Admiral ...
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Combined Fleet. Ensign Nakano distinguished himself in this, his first battle. He wrote to his ...
Isoroku Yamamoto was the outstanding Japanese naval commander of World War II. Born Isoroku Sadayoshi in the village of Kushigun Sonshomura on Hokkaido. He enrolled at the Naval Academy at Etajima, Hiroshima in 1896, graduating in 1904.