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Isoroku Yamamoto
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Isoroku Yamamoto was an admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy and the commander of the Combined Fleet during World War II. He commanded the fleet from 1939 until his death in 1943, overseeing the star
Yamamoto, c. 1940
Yamamoto, c. 1940
Yamamoto (left) with his lifelong friend Teikichi Hori as young officers of the Japanese Navy, 1915–1919
Yamamoto (left) with his lifelong friend Teikichi Hori as young officers of the Japanese Navy, 1915–1919
Captain Isoroku Yamamoto, 30 Jan 1928
Captain Isoroku Yamamoto, 30 Jan 1928
Yamamoto as a naval attaché to the United States, with the Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur, Captain Kiyoshi Hasegawa, and Admiral Edward Walter
Yamamoto as a naval attaché to the United States, with the Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur, Captain Kiyoshi Hasegawa, and Admiral Edward Walter Eberle, 1926
Operation Vengeance
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Operation Vengeance was the American military operation to kill Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto of the Imperial Japanese Navy on 18 April 1943 during the Solomon Islands campaign in the Pacific Theater of Wo
Isoroku Yamamoto
…capture. In April 1943, Yamamoto was killed after American code breakers intercepted his flight plans, enabling the United States Army Air Forces to shoot down his aircraft. Yamamoto was born as Isoroku Takano (高野 五十六, Takano Isoroku) in Nagaoka, Niigata. His father, Sadayoshi Takano (高野 貞吉), had been an intermediate-rank…
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto saluting Japanese naval pilots at Rabaul, hours before his death
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto saluting Japanese naval pilots at Rabaul, hours before his death
P-38G Lightnings were the aircraft chosen to carry out the mission.
P-38G Lightnings were the aircraft chosen to carry out the mission.
339th Fighter Squadron personnel of the mission. Back row (l to r): Ames, Graebner, Lanphier, Goerke, Jacobson, Stratton, Long, Anglin. Front row (l t
339th Fighter Squadron personnel of the mission. Back row (l to r): Ames, Graebner, Lanphier, Goerke, Jacobson, Stratton, Long, Anglin. Front row (l to r): Smith, Canning, Holmes, Barber, Mitchell, Kittel, Whitakker. Not pictured: Hine (MIA).
Yamamoto's ashes return to Japan at Kisarazu aboard battleship Musashi on May 23, 1943
Yamamoto's ashes return to Japan at Kisarazu aboard battleship Musashi on May 23, 1943