Word: isoroku
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...looked forward to dictating peace to the U.S. in the White House is dead. Last week, in Tokyo's Navy Club, the ashes of Isoroku Yamamoto, who had been Naval Commander in Chief of Japan, lay in state. Tokyo reported that the Admiral had been killed, "in combat with the enemy," during April...
Private Joe Yamamoto, as the picture shows, is using your Dec. 22 cover of his distant relative, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, in like manner. Watching him is Private Robert Yarnell, cousin of Admiral Harry E. Yarnell. Both men are trainees at this Quartermaster Replacement Training Center...
Greater have been the physical achievements of Japan's Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. He struck a blow which for the time at least has paralyzed both Britain and the U.S. in the Pacific. But he also launched Japan on an operation which, if it is not totally successful, is likely to endanger her worse than Hitler's Russian campaign has endangered Germany. The measure of his achievement could not be taken from the events...
...official Japanese news agency Domei last week attributed this statement to Japan's naval Commander in Chief, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, in "a letter which Yamamoto sent to a close friend, dated Jan. 24 this year." In announcing his intention of invading the U.S., Admiral Yamamoto echoed an extraordinary warning issued in 1909 by an extraordinary man named Homer...
...Wrath. The tasks which confront the Japanese Navy will not provide pleasant afternoon outings for Isoroku Yamamoto and his subordinates. But they will be sustained in them by a deep resentment, something which hurts down around the breastbone. The Japanese have not known an easy life, and they think that this is so because Britain and the U.S. have kept them from their ease...