Word: isoroku
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cover) A humble wireless set trembled last week with quasi-divine vibrations as the Son of Heaven himself sent Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander in Chief of the Combined Imperial Fleets, congratulations for the daring execution of a brilliant treachery...
...Isoroku Yamamoto had made a wonderful beginning. The four syllables of his name may in future be pronounced twice as reverently as the two of Togo. Japan's greatest previous naval hero, victor of Tsushima, humiliator of the Russians. But if they are, it will be because Yamamoto, like Togo, follows through and makes his wonderful beginning just a beginning...
...Isoroku Yamamoto is not fighting U.S. production. It is his job to consume the product. If he can consume it fast enough, he will have accomplished his mission...
With his four stars, Tommy Hart outranks his opposite number in the Japanese Navy, Vice Admiral Mineichi Koga. Only Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander in Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet, and Admiral Osami Nagano, Chief of the Naval General Staff, boast equal status...
...which the U. S. might have to fight, willy-nilly, if its rubber-&-tin lifeline were actually cut. Nobody would dislike that war more than the Japanese officers under genial Vice Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto; they have a great liking and respect for the U. S. Navy...