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"Isoroku" is a Japanese term meaning "56"; the name referred to his father's age at Isoroku's birth. [4] In 1916, Isoroku was adopted into the Yamamoto family (another family of former Nagaoka samurai) and took the Yamamoto name. It was a common practice for samurai families lacking sons to adopt suitable young men in this fashion to carry on ...
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.
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 ...
Isoroku Yamamoto (1884–1943), Japanese admiral in World War II, also called "General Yamamoto" Yamamoto Kansuke (general) (1501–1561) List of Soul Reapers in Bleach#Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto , fictional character, also called "captain" and/or "general" Yamamoto
Meanwhile, Yamamoto has divided his carriers, despatching the Hiryu and Soryu, commanded by Admiral Ozawa, closer to Oahu to cover the crippled Hiei and guard against attacks from the south-east whilst the rest of the carriers are north-west of the islands, covering the west flank. The Japanese launch scout-planes to find the US carriers.
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 ...
"Combined Fleet Commander Isoroku Yamamoto: Truth of the Pacific War 70 Years Ago") is a 2011 Japanese biographical film about Isoroku Yamamoto, the Imperial Japanese Navy's (IJN) Marshal Admiral and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II. Other English home media titles of the film are The Admiral, [5] and Admiral ...
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.