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Isoroku Yamamoto
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Isoroku Yamamoto, the great general, was one of Japanese’s irreplaceable soldiers. He stood as a symbol of honor, bravery, and discipline. His principles were resolute, and his determination astounding. In the years before and during the second great world war, he held a place of prominence over the Japanese people. With a grand plan he led the surprise attack against the United States, pulling the great nation into an even greater war. Through the following years he led many valiant attacks against the enemy, until his demise by American fighters on April 18th, 1943.
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As commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet from 1939 to 1943, Isoroku Yamamoto presided over Japanese naval strategy during the first half of World War II. History remembers him as the architect of the stunning American defeat at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The ironic thing is that Yamamoto opposed war with the United States and Japan's partnership with Nazi Germany. Yet once Tokyo decided on hostilities, a dutiful Yamamoto concocted the brilliant plan of incapacitating the U.S. Pacific Fleet with a massive carrier air strike. Instead of breaking America's will to continue the struggle... Yamamoto's master stroke roused a sleeping giant that would destroy him and devastate his country.
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An adopted child, Isoroku Yamamoto graduated from Japan's Imperial naval academy in 1904 at age 20. He was assigned to a cruiser, and in May 1905 he participated in the big naval battle of Tsushima Strait, where the new Japanese Navy defeated the Russian Navy. Yamamoto was wounded in the left hand and leg and lost two fingers, but recovered and continued with his naval career.
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Isoroku Yamamoto was born in 1884. His original family name, Takano, was changed through adoption. Graduated from the Japanese Naval Academy in 1904, he was wounded in action during the Russo-Japanese War. Yamamoto attended the Naval War College during the "teens" and later studied at Harvard University. As a Captain, he served as Naval Attache to the United States in 1925-28. In the late 1920s and during the 1930s, he held a number of important positions, many of them involved with Japanese naval aviation.
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Isoroku Yamamoto was born on April 4th 1884 in Niigata, a famous harbour town in Northern Japan. On December 16th 1901, Isoroku started his military service at the age of 17, and he served during the Japanese–Russian war. (1)
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Isoroku Yamamoto spent a lot of time playing poker with Yanks during his years in the States, smoking like a chimney to deaden the scent of their appalling aftershave. The Yanks are laughably rude and uncultured, of course; this hardly constitutes a sharp observation. Yamamoto, by contrast, attained some genuine insight as a side-effect of being robbed blind by Yanks at the poker table, realizing that the big freckled louts could be dreadfully cunning. Crude and stupid would be okay -- perfectly understandable, in fact.
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