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Before and during the war Yamamoto frequently corresponded with Hori, these personal letters would become the subject of the NHK documentary The Truth of Yamamoto. [40] The claim that Yamamoto was a Catholic [41] is likely due to confusion with retired Admiral Shinjiro Stefano Yamamoto, who was a decade older than Isoroku, and died in 1942. [42]
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of the Imperial Japanese Navy, scheduled an inspection tour of the Solomon Islands and New Guinea.He planned to inspect Japanese air units participating in Operation I-Go that had begun 7 April 1943; in addition, the tour would boost Japanese morale following the disastrous Guadalcanal campaign and its subsequent evacuation during January and February.
On 12 February 1942, Yamato became the flagship of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's Combined Fleet. [ 13 ] [ 19 ] A veteran of Japan's crushing victory over Russia at the Battle of Tsushima in the Russo-Japanese War , the Pearl Harbor victor was planning a decisive engagement with the United States Navy at Midway Island .
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto had been killed on April 18, 1943. The following day, Admiral Mineichi Koga succeeded Yamamoto as Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet. [54] In May 1943, the Japanese prepared Operation Z or the Z plan, which envisioned the use of the IJN to counter American forces threatening the Japanese outer defense perimeter.
The following events occurred in April 1943: . April 18, 1943: Japan's Admiral Yamamoto killed when Americans discover and shoot down his airplane April 20, 1943: Jefferson Memorial dedicated on Jefferson's 200th birthday April 3, 1943: Shipwreck survivor Poon Lim rescued after 131 days adrift April 12, 1943: Martin Bormann designated as Hitler's second-in-command
From Japanese records and survivors, among them Admiral Ugaki, the following facts are certain: only two G4M Betty bombers were attacked; Yamamoto's was shot down over Bougainville with no survivors; the second went into the ocean and Admiral Ugaki was among the three survivors. The day following the attack, a Japanese search party located the ...
NCIS vet Mark Harmon and tech advisor/former Special Agent Leon Carroll Jr. have teamed on a non-fiction book that chronicles a World War II operation led by the ONI (Office of Naval Intelligence ...
Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, planned the attack as a pre-emptive strike on the Pacific Fleet, based at Pearl Harbor since 1940, in order to prevent it from interfering with Japan's planned actions in Southeast Asia. Yamamoto hoped that the strike would enable Japan to make quick territorial gains and negotiate a ...