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Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was the Commander in Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy in WWII. He was considered Japan's greatest military leader, credited with the success of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. U.S. Naval Intelligence had broken the Japanese Military Code, and on April 14th, 1943, they intercepted a message that said Admiral Yamamoto would be flying to Bougainville on the 18th. The message stated he would be flying in a "Betty" bomber escorted by six Zeros. The flight was expected to arrive at 0800. Admiral Chester Nimitz with the backing of President Roosevelt and Navy Secretary Knox gave the go ahead to intercept the flight and kill Yamamoto.
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Japan ese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is credited with saying, after the attack on Pearl Harbor , "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." The earliest citation for that theatrical comment... is the (reasonably accurate) movie, Tora! Tora! Tora! ( 1970 ). That quotation was accepted and repeated verbatim in the movie Pearl Harbor ( 2001 ).
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At the outset of WWII, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was arguably Japan's best military Strategist. As the architect of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Yamamoto sought to deliver a knock out blow to the United States. Yamamoto had serious reservations that Japan could win a protracted war, and wanted to devastate the American military and discourage the U.S. from entering the war at all. What happened... was exactly the opposite. The attack spurred the U.S. to wage and win the war...and seek vengeance upon Yamamoto himself.
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Isoroku Yamamoto studied at Harvard from 1919 to 1921, and returned to the United States in 1925 on a diplomatic mission. He didn't want to go to war with the United States, but when called upon by his country Yamamoto planned the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor and then led the Japanese navy to its early victories in World War II. When the U.S. decoded a Japanese message in 1943 that included Admiral Yamamoto's itinerary, they ambushed his plane in the south Pacific and killed him.
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Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (shown, right) is widely acknowledged as the architect of the Pearl Harbor attack plan. Yamamoto, who by 1939 was the Commander-in-Chief of Japan’s combined fleet, firmly believed that long-range and offensive power were the wave of the future. He would be proven right by the extensive carrier battles that were the hallmark of the Pacific War. Yamamoto had spent time in Washington as a Naval Attaché, he had ... traveled extensively in America and had a healthy respect both for Americans and their industrial might. When he became convinced, in January of 1941, that war with America and Britain was inevitable, he completed his plan for Pearl Harbor and sent it to the Navy minister.
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On December 7, 1941, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto’s plan for attacking Pearl Harbor was put into effect, despite his objections. A Japanese task force launched over 350 fighters, bombers, and torpedo aircraft successfully attacked the naval air station and surrounding military installations, losing less than 20 aircraft and 5 midget submarines in the attack, and inflicting overwhelming damage on the naval vessels docked in the harbor.
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