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Isoroku Yamamoto is the Japanese admiral who planned and led the Japanese attack on United States forces at Pearl Harbor in 1941. Isoroku was born in Japan and adopted by the Yamamoto clan as a child.
Apr 30, 1998 · Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku opposed war with the United States, but once the decision was made, he did his duty, laying meticulous plans for the attack on Pearl Harbor. Hoover fellow Mark R. Peattie joins David C. Evans in describing how Yamamoto achieved a brilliant tactical success—only to set in train the events that would lead to Japanese defeat.
Jun 24, 2016 · Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto Planned Attacks “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”-From the diary of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. Yamamoto was a man of humble beginnings. Raised by a lower-class samurai warrior, Yamamoto’s name was originally Takano.
Isoroku Yamamoto was a Japanese naval admiral who helped plan the attack on Pearl Harbour and played a major role in the Pacific War until his death in April 1943. Born in 1884, Yamamoto graduated from the Japanese Naval Academy in 1904.
Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quotation is a film quote by Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto regarding the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor by forces of Imperial Japan. The quotation is portrayed at the very end of the 1970 film Tora!
Isoroku Yamamoto was an able Japanese Naval Chief who played a vital role in the Pearl Harbor attack that made Japan victorious in the early phase of World War II. He was educated at Harvard and was good at English.
Isoroku Yamamoto [山本 五十六] is supposed by many to have opposed war with the United States. Yet he ‘personally advocated the attack [on Pearl Harbor] and went to great extremes to execute it, in spite of almost universal opposition within the Imperial Japanese Navy.’
