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30 ott 2017 · Tora! Tora!, the character of Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto questions the effectiveness of the attack on Pearl Harbor, saying, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”. While it makes for great cinema, and it's known that the man who orchestrated the attack was on the fence about ...
Reluctantly, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto executed the Attack on Pearl Harbor and brought war with the United States. For many Americans in late 1941 and early 1942, he was the most hated—and feared—man in the world. More than Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, or Josef Stalin. Many believed that he was just off the Pacific Coast with a ...
Japan, 1941 With war raging in Europe, Japan's imperial command sees an opportunity to advance their nation's standing in the world. The plan to attack Pearl Harbor was drawn up and one man was tasked with it's implementation Admiral Yamamoto. Opposed to the plan, Yamamoto must nevertheless carry out his orders and commit one of the biggest military mistakes in history. The Admiral is a 10.5 ...
11 dic 2011 · TOKYO. "Isoroku," a Japanese film about the life of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who orchestrated the Pearl Harbor attack and was commander-in-chief in the early years of what many Japanese call the Pacific War, will start showing in Japan on Dec 23. The movie, subtitled "The truth about the Pacific War on the 70th anniversary" and starring Koji ...
Today we take a look at the life story of one of Japan's most famous Admiral's, from humble beginnings through to the attack that would define the his legacy...
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Following his graduation from the College he was posted to the staff of the Second Battle Squadron with the rank of Lieutenant Commander. His naval career was on its way. Following his parents’ deaths (in 1912), he accepted an offer from the influential, and wealthy, Yamamoto family in 1916 to join them and become their male heir.
Isoroku Yamamoto had had a distinguished naval career. He had entered the Naval Academy at Eta Jima in 1901, at the age of seventeen. In May, 1905, while still a midshipman, he was slightly wounded while serving aboard the Mikasa, Admiral Togo’s flagship, at the battle of Tsushima where the Japanese annihilated the Russian fleet.
