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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.
Oct 25, 2024 · Yamamoto Isoroku (born April 4, 1884, Nagaoka, Japan—died April 18, 1943, Solomon Islands) was a Japanese naval officer who conceived of the surprise attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
- Yamamoto Isoroku graduated from the Japanese Naval Academy in 1904 and the Japanese Naval Staff College in 1916. He studied English at Harvard Univ...
- Yamamoto Isoroku perceived the transformational power of naval aviation at an early date and moved the Japanese navy away from big-gun battleships...
- Although he planned the Pearl Harbor attack, Yamamoto Isoroku was fully aware of its consequences. He predicted that he would "win victory upon vic...
- On April 18, 1943, Yamamoto Isoroku was carrying out an inspection tour in the South Pacific. American code breakers had intercepted his itinerary...
The man perhaps most associated with the “Day of Infamy,” Pearl Harbor attack mastermind Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, was killed fighting a war he thought was a losing venture. Having spent years in the United States and fully aware of the nation’s manpower and industrial might, he knew Imperial Japan could ill-afford a protracted and ...
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Dec 7, 2016 · Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was the chief architect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 75 years ago. Naval historian Capt. Yukoh Watanabe talks about Adm. Yamamoto's legacy...
Jul 3, 2019 · Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was the commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet during World War II before being killed in action in April 1943.
Born on April 4, 1884, Isoroku Yamamoto (the name means “base of the mountain”) was the seventh child of Sadayoshi Takano, a cultured but impoverished primary schoolmaster of the samurai class in the city of Nagaoka on the bleak, isolated western coast of Japan’s main island, Honshu.
Oct 23, 2009 · Isoroku Yamamoto, perhaps Japan’s greatest strategist and the officer who would contrive the surprise air attack on U.S. naval forces at Pearl Harbor, is born on April 4, 1884. A graduate of...
