Word: isoroku
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fateful meeting was the Battle of Midway, fought 15 years ago this week. It was one of the decisive battles of history, a fight no less monumental than Salamis, or Lepanto, or Trafalgar. Japan's Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, architect of victory at Pearl Harbor, had flung a vast armada of 200 ships and 700 planes across the Pacific to Wake Island and to the Aleutians, with the spearhead pointing toward a remote, strategic atoll called Midway (see map). His plan was to seize Midway, "sentry for Hawaii," draw out what was left of the U.S. fleet...
...dive bombers to get Hiryu. "Enemy dive bombers directly overhead" was about all Hiryu's lookout had time to report before Hiryu, swerving in an attempted evasion, was smothered by four direct hits. And when word of the disaster dinned back into the ears of Commander in Chief Isoroku Yamamoto, as he sat amid his battleships several-hundred useless miles to the northwest, the master planner could only groan. "The game was up," a Japanese yeoman recalled. "The members of the staff looked at one another, their mouths tight shut. Indescribable emptiness, cheerlessness and chagrin...
...University has learned of two other enemy war casualties, but their names were not carved on the plaque. The men were Isoroku Yamamoto, special student from 1919 to 1920, who was commander-in-chief of the Japanese Navy at his death in May, 1943 and Dr. Shokichi Otajima, at the School of Public Health from 1932 to 1934, who was killed on Salpan in July...