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  Isoroku Yamamoto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yamamoto was a strong proponent of naval aviation, and (as vice admiral) served as head of the Aeronautics’ Department before accepting a post as commander of the First Carrier Division.
Yamamoto's plan was to draw American attention—and possibly carrier forces—north from Pearl Harbor by sending his Fifth Fleet (2 light carriers, 5 cruisers, 13 destroyers and 4 transports) against the Aleutians, raiding Dutch Harbor on Unalaska Island and invading the more distant islands of Kiska and Attu.
Yamamoto, the itinerary revealed, would be flying from Rabaul to Ballalae Airfield, on an island near Bougainville in the Solomon Islands, on the morning of 18 April 1943.
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 Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quote - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Japanese 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 quote has come down to us as one of the most famous lines ever uttered by anyone during World War II.
Yamamoto certainly believed that Japan could not win a protracted war with the United States, and moreover seems to have believed that the Pearl Harbor attack had become a blunder — even though he was the person who came up with the idea of a surprise attack.
Yamamoto, when once asked his opinion on the war, pessimistically said that the only way for Japan to win was to fight the United States until Japan could dictate terms in the White House in Washington.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isoroku_Yamamoto's_sleeping_giant_quote   (574 words)

  
 Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
Yamamoto was wounded in the left hand and leg and lost two fingers, but recovered and continued with his naval career.
Later that year Yamamoto was assigned to a senior role in the naval aviation headquarters, where he continued to be a driving force in the development of Japan's aircraft carriers force and in making it the Navy's spearhead, focusing on enhancing the quality of its aircraft and tactics.
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the planner of the attack in Pearl Harbor, was killed.
www.2worldwar2.com /yamamoto.htm   (1462 words)

  
 Battle of Midway: Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Isoroku Yamamoto was born in Japan in 1884.
Isoroku, which means 56, Takano's age at the time of his sixth son's birth, adopted the surname Yamamoto later in life.
Yamamoto graduated from the Japanese Naval Academy in 1904, and fought as an ensign in the Russo-Japanese War.
library.nps.navy.mil /home/midway/yamamoto.htm   (499 words)

  
 ::Isoroku Yamamoto::
Yamamoto was ordered to prepare for an attack on America as she was the only real threat to Japanese expansion in the Pacific.
Yamamoto's death did a great deal to undermine morale in the Japanese military and for this reason the Japanese public was only told about Yamamoto's death on May 21st, nearly a month after the attack.
Yamamoto was posthumously promoted to the highest rank of Fleet Admiral, awarded the Order of the Chrysanthemum, First Class, and Nazi Germany awarded him the Knight's Cross with oak leaves - the only foreigner to receive this award.
www.historylearningsite.co.uk /isoroku_yamamoto.htm   (794 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Yamamoto Isoroku
Yamamoto Isoroku (山本 五十六) (April 4, 1884 - April 18, 1943) 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.
Following the invasion of Indochina and the freezing of Japanese assets by the US in July 1941, Yamamoto won the argument over tactics and when in December war was declared the entire First Fleet air arm under Admiral Nagumo Chuichi was directed against the American fleet at Pearl Harbor, attacking on December 7.
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 Isokoru Yamamoto
Yamamoto was on board a cruiser during the destruction of the Russian Fleet at Tshushima in 1905.
Yamamoto was opposed the signing of the Tripartite Pact with Nazi Germany as he feared it would lead to war with the United States.
Yamamoto's plan was eventually agreed by the Japanese Imperial Staff and the strike force under the command of Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo sailed from the Kurile Islands on 26th November, 1941.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWyamamoto.htm   (1012 words)

  
 Isoroku Yamamoto
Isoroku Yamamoto was the outstanding Japanese naval commander of World War II.
Born Isoroku Sadayoshi in the village of Kushigun Sonshomura on Hokkaido.
Yamamoto did not soften his logical anti-conflict stance, when the Japan signed the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy in September 1940, Yamamoto warned Premier Konoe Fumimaro not to consider war with the United States: "If I am told to fight...
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Yamamoto.html   (935 words)

  
 Millennial Fair – Isoroku Yamamoto (1884 - 1943)
Isoroku Yamamoto was born on April 4th 1884 in Niigata, a famous harbour town in Northern Japan.
Isoroku rose in rank after the first World War, and during a period of sixteen years (from 1919 to 1935), he served in different capacities in foreign countries.
Yamamoto was fluent in English, had a good education, and was familiar with all the aspects of the American and British Navy.
www.millennial-fair.com /literature/yamamoto.html   (742 words)

  
 Isoroku Yamamoto
Isoroku Yamamoto, the great general, was one of Japanese’s irreplaceable soldiers.
For example Yamamoto commented that, if the United States was ever to surrender it would only be after they had been pushed all the way back to the their capital, and were forced to sign a treaty on the steps of the White House.
Many Japanese fervently believe that Yamamoto committed suicide (compare to suicide bombers) in the process of “Bushido” before he died, yet the several witness’ state that Yamamoto must have died instantly from the bullet to the head.
www.hyperhistory.net /apwh/bios/b3yamamoto.htm   (969 words)

  
 56 - Cryptonomicon - Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
Isoroku Yamamoto was the greatest military commander of the Japanese Navy during World War II and the architect for the Attack on Pearl Harbor that drew the United States into the War.
Yamamoto's strategy was to draw the US forces into an ambush unfortunately for him America knew of the Japanese plans and turned Yamamoto's strategy against him.
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was later discovered still strapped to his seat with his ceremonial sword in his grasp, he was cremated and his ashes returned to Japan for a state funeral.
www.electricinca.com /56/annotations/admiral_isoroku_yamamoto.htm   (825 words)

  
 BookRags: Isoroku Yamamoto Biography
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.
His father gave him the name Isoroku (meaning 56 in Japanese) as he was that age when his son was born in the small village of Kushigun Sonshomura on a bleak northern island that produced many Japanese sailors.
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 Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
On April 4, 1884, Isoroku Takano was born as the sixth son of a school principal.
Ensign Yamamoto was wounded during the battle of Tsushima in 1905 by a Russian shell that hit the flagship Mikasa, which he was on.
However, after the loss of the battle, Yamamoto told his council that he didn’t want anyone blaming the loss on the submarine force or the navy, because the loss was Yamamoto’s fault, and his alone.
www.angelfire.com /ia/totalwar/Yamamoto.html   (410 words)

  
 Free Essays on Yamamoto
Isoroku Yamamoto was correct in his thinking that war between the U.S.A., Great Britain, and Japan should be avoided at all costs, and in the event of war between the U.S.A., Great Britain, and Japan, Japan would lead in the beginning, like the first 6 to 12 months, but would eventually lose the war.
Isoroku Yamamoto did not have to overcome many hardships on his climb to the top of the success ladder except for being poor.
Isoroku Takano was born in 1884, in a medium sized city called Nagaoka.
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 Yamamoto, Isoroku
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 Magic and Lightning - March 2006 (PRINT-FRIENDLY)
Yamamoto’s goal at Pearl Harbor was annihilation of the US Pacific Fleet, achievement of which would have decided the outcome of the war “on the first day,” wrote his biographer, Hiroyuki Agawa.
Yamamoto was due back in Truk, but he planned to make one more trip to the front to emphasize to his pilots the absolute necessity of holding air superiority.
From then on, Yamamoto was just as concerned with technology as he was with tactics, and he was instrumental in shaping the Japanese Navy into the sophisticated fighting force it was by the time of Pearl Harbor.
www.afa.org /magazine/March2006/0306yamamoto.html   (3035 words)

  
 Papua New Guinea Forum - Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto - 1884 - 1943
Also, until Yamamoto’s death, the Japanese were looking comfortable to complete their mission to claim the South Pacific in their empirical expansion plans which were to include Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines.
Yamamoto was the Japanese strategist who was counted on to plan many of the attacks that ensued.
Yamamoto was a graduate from the Japanese Naval Academy in 1904.
www.pngbd.com /forum/printthread.php?t=5072   (759 words)

  
 WW2DB: Isoroku Yamamoto
Isoroku Yamamoto was born Isoroku Takano, but changed his name after being adopted by the Yamamoto family.
Yamamoto was nicknamed "80 sen" by some of his favorite geisha girls because he lost two fingers from the said battle (at the time, a geisha manicure cost 100 sen, or 1 yen).
Yamamoto was promoted to the rank of full admiral in 1940 at the venerable age of 56.
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 COSMIC BASEBALL ASSOCIATION-1997 ISOROKU YAMAMOTO
Admiral Yamamoto was the chief designer of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Yamamoto's father, Takano Sadayoshi, was a former member of the Japanese Samurai class.
In fact, however, Yamamoto was an educated, sensitive man who, based on his visits to America, realized the inherent danger in awakening the drowsy beast.
www.cosmicbaseball.com /yamamot7.html   (476 words)

  
 TIME.com: The U.S. at War -- Page 8
Surveying his assignment, Isoroku Yamamoto saw that his greatest permanent necessity would be to keep British power and U.S. power from effecting a junction.
Isoroku Yamamoto is not the grinning, bowing, breath-sipping little man with horn-rimmed glasses, eager mustache and super-buck teeth which U.S. cartoonists have selected as Mr.
Japan," says Yamamoto "has always regarded the aircraft carrier as one of the most offensive of armaments." How Admiral Yamamoto developed and perfected this concept was demonstrated all too clearly in his opening moves in the Pacific.
www.time.com /time/arts/article/0,8599,128080-8,00.html   (1985 words)

  
 Yamamoto
In 1915 Takano succeeded to the family of Tatewaki Yamamoto, the karo (chief retainer) of the daimyo family of Makino.
Yamamoto, then a captain of the Imperial Japanese Navy, had completed a tour of inspecting the military state of affairs in Europe and the United States and was on the way back to Japan.
The wreckage was recovered from New Guinea and moved to the Yamamoto Memorial Museum in 1997.
home.att.net /~hirasaki2/Kishi_Colony/Yamamoto.htm   (537 words)

  
 Yohji Yamamoto - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943), Japanese naval commander and architect of the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor which brought the United States into...
Isoroku, Yamamoto (quotations): World War II: I fear we have only…
I fear we have only awakened a sleeping giant, and his reaction will be terrible.
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 Ahoy - Mac's Web Log-The execution of Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, carried out on the 18th. of April 1943-
Admiral Isoroku, as CinC of the Imperial Japanese Navy, was responsible for the devastating and devious attack on Pearl Harbor on the 7th of December 1941.
Yamamoto's mission was to fly the flag amongst some of Japan's outlying military posts, trying to boost morale against the American and Allied offensives in that area of the Pacific.
He says there were two Bombers, with Admiral Yamamoto in the lead one, and it was shot down, crashing over the jungle, he makes no reference about a wing falling off the Bomber, or of a Zero being shot down.
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 People-Japan--Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943)
Yamamoto attended the Naval War College during the "teens" and later studied at Harvard University.
Isoroku Yamamoto was posthumously promoted to the rank of Admiral of the Fleet.
Photographed at the Navy Department, Washington, DC, circa 1925-28, while Capt. Yamamoto was serving as Japanese Naval Attache to the U.S. Photograph received from the U.S. Embassy, Tokyo, Japan, 1973.
www.history.navy.mil /photos/prs-for/japan/japrs-xz/i-yamto.htm   (475 words)

  
 Isoroku Yamamoto
Isoroku Yamamoto studied at Harvard from 1919 to 1921, and returned to the United States in 1925 on a diplomatic mission.
Isoroku Yamamoto - Yamamoto, Isoroku, 1884–1943, Japanese admiral in World War II.
Isoroku Yamamoto - Sailor/Military Leader/World War II Figure, born 4 August 1884, Japanese admiral who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor
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 The World at War: Isoroku Yamamoto   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
One of the major advocates of Japanese naval aviation, as Commander of the 1st Fleet, Yamamoto was responsible for the plan for the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, and for the many Japanese naval successes in the opening months of the Pacific War.
Ironically, he was opposed to going to war with the United States, which he knew would be a more dangerous opponent than many Japanese imagined.
He was killed in 1943, when USAAF P-38 fighters intercepted the bomber carrying him on an inspection tour of forward bases.
www.euronet.nl /users/wilfried/ww2/yamamoto.htm   (224 words)

  
 Isoroku Yamamoto Memorial Hall & Museum
This modest museum and memorial is in the birthplace of Admiral Isorkou Yamamoto.
The centerpiece of the museum is a display with pieces of the aircraft he was shot down over Bougainville.
Yamamoto's seat and outerwing (permanent loan from PNG Museum).
www.pacificwrecks.com /restore/japan/yamamoto.html   (60 words)

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