Word: nagumo
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...Their opposite number-Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, who led the Japanese attack, shot himself on Saipan this summer, while the island was being overrun by marines. Nagumo gathered his staff in a hut and they all committed suicide, but not before one of them had set fire to the hut so that their bodies were partially burned...
...Saipan, Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo made his honorable exit. Onetime hero of the Empire, Nagumo commanded the carriers in the Pearl Harbor attack, lived to see his fame dimmed when he lost four of five carriers in the Battle of Midway. After Saipan fell, U.S. soldiers found his corpse. He had, quite obviously, committed harakiri...
...Nagumo's subordinate on Saipan, Rear Admiral Yano, went out the same way when the last charge was beaten off. Less successful was elderly Lieut. General Yoshiji Saito. He started to make the charge, faltered, tried to take his own life, failed. His adjutant finished...