Word: nagumo
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...office at the Japanese consulate in Honolulu on the night of Dec. 6, 1941, Vice Consul Morimura, 27, glanced at this message, buzzed for his code clerk, ordered the report sent to Tokyo and shortly went off to bed. At 0120 hours the next morning. Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, commander of a Japanese task force, received the relayed message from Tokyo. It was the last word required...
...Nagumo before mounting the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Vice Consul Morimura had done his job well...
...apparent victory of the Zeros, Nagumo now saw a chance to save his carriers and to save Yamamoto's master campaign. During the U.S. torpedo runs, he put his men to work frantically rearming the planes for a counterstrike against the U.S. carriers. The flight decks were packed with armed, fueled planes as the big ships began turning into the wind. At 1024 the order to start launching came down from Akagi's bridge by voice tube, and the air officer flapped a white flag. At that instant, slanting and howling down at 70° out of light...
...Zeros, Rear Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi of the sole surviving carrier, Hiryu, put in a sudden, sharp attack against Yorktown, losing almost all of his aircraft but scoring three hits and starting fires. At 1245 Yamaguchi threw in his last ten torpedo bombers and six fighters, remnant of Nagumo's force of 250 plus, led by a lieutenant who knew he had only enough fuel for a one-way trip. The result: slaughter for the Japanese planes by U.S. fighters and antiaircraft, but two torpedo hits on Yorktown, enough to cripple her and leave her a mark, two days later...
Last week Handa sat mournfully beside the altar, in his underwear (he was going easy on the few clothes he had left). The rickety shack where the great Nagumo had bowed to the Laughing God was bare and deserted. Few of his former disciples were in a laughing mood...