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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
Attack on Pearl Harbor
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military attack by the Empire of Japan on the US Pacific Fleet at its naval base at Pearl Harbor in Oahu, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. At the time, the US was
Isoroku Yamamoto
…with creating a strategy for war with the United States; Yamamoto favored a surprise attack, which was carried out at the start of the war with an attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. In the early months of the war, the Japanese fleet scored a series of decisive naval victories. These gains were halted at the Battle…
Photograph of Battleship Row taken from a Japanese plane at the beginning of the attack. The explosion in the center is a torpedo strike on USS West V
Photograph of Battleship Row taken from a Japanese plane at the beginning of the attack. The explosion in the center is a torpedo strike on USS West Virginia. Two attacking Japanese planes can be seen: one over USS Neosho and one over the Naval Yard.
Pearl Harbor on October 30, 1941, a month before the attack, with Ford Island visible (in the center)
Pearl Harbor on October 30, 1941, a month before the attack, with Ford Island visible (in the center)
The Empire of Japan's 1941 attack plan on Pearl Harbor
The Empire of Japan's 1941 attack plan on Pearl Harbor
The route followed by the Japanese fleet to Pearl Harbor and back
The route followed by the Japanese fleet to Pearl Harbor and back