Word: isoroku
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surprising Departure. "The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor," says Captain Morison, "far from being a 'strategic necessity' as the Japanese claimed even after the war, was a strategic imbecility." Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was a brilliant tactician, but when he cooked up Pearl Harbor he departed from the sound basic plan of Japanese strategy. This was to complete the conquest of the Western Pacific and wait there for the U.S. fleet, cutting it down by island attacks and then overwhelming it in Philippine waters. In Morison's opinion, one good reason for Admiral Kimmel's failure...
...Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto actually never boasted that he would dictate peace in the White House-quite the contrary, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz reported; the sword-rattling Japanese Government had simply twisted Yamamoto's remarks. Said Nimitz: newly discovered Japanese documents prove that the Jap admiral was trying to warn his people that in any war on the U.S. "to make victory certain we will have to march into Washington and dictate the terms of peace in the White House...
Only the bare fact that Japan's U.S.-hating Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander in Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet, had died "in combat with the enemy" was admitted by Tokyo two years ago (TIME, May 31, 1943). U.S. military sources admitted nothing. Last week a Jap war correspondent, captured in northern Luzon, told more of the story: In a twin-engined Jap bomber escorted by 30 fighters, Yamamoto and half a dozen other bigwigs were inspecting Jap-held Pacific islands. Over Kahili airdrome on southern Bougainville, the bomber circled to land and the escort headed back toward Rabaul...
...Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Harold Raynsford Stark, is now commander of the U.S. fleet in Europe. The Japanese chief of combined fleets, Isoroku Yamamoto, is dead. He was shot down in an airplane over the South Pacific a year ago last spring...
Only eleven months earlier, Koga's famed predecessor, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto ("I am looking forward to dictating peace in the White House . . .") was shot down in his airplane in the South Pacific. The announcement of Koga's death was strangely like that of Yamamoto's: ". . . died at his post in March while directing general operations from an airplane at the front...