"Isoroku Yamamoto — Fascinating Facts About Japan’s Most" Topic
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Tango01  | 09 Jan 2021 8:40 p.m. PST |
…Famous Admiral "IT WAS JUST before 3 a.m. on Hashira Island, Japan when a naval officer dashed into the crowded operations centre of the flagship Nagato clutching a coded message. It read simply: "Tora! Tora! Tora!" — Japanese for "Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!" The three-word signal meant only one thing: More than 4,000 miles to the east, 353 bomb and torpedo-laden warplanes from the Imperial Japanese Navy had arrived in the skies above the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor. Within moments, the air armada would begin its attack. The date was Dec. 7, 1941…"
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| IronDuke596 | 10 Jan 2021 6:27 a.m. PST |
A good synopsis of Yamamoto's career. Thanks T. The attack on Pearl Harbor was Japan's greatest and most unnecessary strategic mistake of the war. |
 Editor in Chief Bill   | 10 Jan 2021 8:49 a.m. PST |
Courtesy of Military History Now |
| Tango01 | 10 Jan 2021 3:31 p.m. PST |
A votre service mon ami! (smile) Amicalement
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| Twoheart | 12 Feb 2021 11:53 a.m. PST |
I wonder what he thinks of the P-38? |
| Blutarski | 23 Mar 2021 5:35 p.m. PST |
From what I've read, during Yamamoto's pre-war time as a naval attache in the USA, he had a reputation as an excellent poker player. B |
| Skarper | 03 Apr 2021 5:01 p.m. PST |
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| Nine pound round | 16 May 2021 4:56 p.m. PST |
Unlike many of the Axis senior leaders, an appealing personality, within limits (does anyone ever describe Walther Model as "charming," or having a soft spot for anything?). Among the Japanese leadership, the Navy was consistently much more sober and realistic about its chances in a major war then the Army, right up to the end. I suspect that a lot of the bitter-end attitude among the Japanese Army was a product of their belief that the US had yet to meet and fight them en masse, even after the Philippines and Okinawa. |
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