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    Isoroku Yamamoto (山本 五十六, Yamamoto Isoroku, April 4, 1884 – April 18, 1943) was a Marshal Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and the commander-in-chief...
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    Isoroku Yamamoto of the Imperial Japanese Navy on 18 April 1943 during the Solomon Islands campaign in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Yamamoto,...
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    Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quotation is a film quote by Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto regarding the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor by forces of...
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  • Isoroku (Japanese: 聯合艦隊司令長官 山本五十六 -太平洋戦争70年目の真実-, Hepburn: Rengō Kantai Shirei Chōkan Yamamoto Isoroku: Taiheiyō Sensō Nanajū-nenme no Shinjitsu, lit....
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    defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy under Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto, Chūichi Nagumo, and Nobutake Kondō north of Midway Atoll, inflicting...
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    served as the flagship of the Combined Fleet, and in June 1942 Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto directed the fleet from her bridge during the Battle of Midway, a disastrous...
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  • Midway (2019 film) (category Cultural depictions of Isoroku Yamamoto)
    States Navy, British Royal Navy, and Imperial Japanese Navy by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto that, because 80% of Japan's oil is imported, if the US were to threaten...
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    Lord Toranaga in the NBC television miniseries Shōgun, and Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in three different films. In 1962, he established Mifune Productions...
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  • Rex T. Barber (category Isoroku Yamamoto)
    secret mission to intercept the aircraft carrying Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in April 1943. Born and raised in Culver, Oregon, Barber's parents...
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    Miike's The Bird People in China. Mako was cast as the historic Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in the epic drama Pearl Harbor (2001). He also had a role in Bulletproof...
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  • Tora! Tora! Tora! (category Cultural depictions of Isoroku Yamamoto)
    newly appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, reluctantly plans a pre-emptive strike on the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored...
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  • Japanese sport wrestler Isoroku Yamamoto (山本 五十六, 1884–1943), Imperial Japanese Navy admiral killed during World War II Issei Yamamoto (山本 一清, 1889–1959),...
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    Tōgō Heihachirō, Isoroku Yamamoto, and Mitsumasa Yonai, famous Japanese Naval admirals. The mistress of the restaurant was Komatsu Yamamoto, whose former...
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    the United Kingdom. Hori was a close friend and mentor of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. Teikichi Hori was born as the second son of Yasaburo Yano, who came...
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  • about Isoroku Yamamoto Rengō Kantai Shirei Chōkan: Yamamoto Isoroku, a 1968 film about Isoroku Yamamoto Rengō Kantai Shirei Chōkan: Yamamoto Isoroku (2011...
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  • Pearl Harbor (film) (category Cultural depictions of Isoroku Yamamoto)
    Fleet and the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Mako as Kaigun Taishō (admiral) Isoroku Yamamoto, Fleet Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy and mastermind of the...
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    operations, Kondō was regarded as second in importance only to Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. Kondō was a native of Osaka. He graduated at the head of his class...
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    Admiral Yamamoto (Japanese: 連合艦隊司令長官 山本五十六, Hepburn: Rengō Kantai Shirei Chōkan Yamamoto Isoroku, lit. 'Isoroku Yamamoto: Commander-in-Chief of the Combined...
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  • Midway (1976 film) (category Cultural depictions of Isoroku Yamamoto)
    "They sacrifice themselves like samurai, these Americans." Similar to Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quote from the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora!, there is...
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    appear to have had mixed feelings about the attack. Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was unhappy about the botched timing of the breaking off of negotiations...
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  • the views and actions of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who had assumed command of the Combined Fleet in August 1939. Yamamoto, virtually overnight, changed the...
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  • reconnaissance in the area, or, in the case of the shootdown of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, where the sighting could be attributed to the Coastwatchers. During...
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    Atoll, as it was launched simultaneously under the same commander, Isoroku Yamamoto. Some historians have argued against that interpretation and believe...
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    synonymous with the Imperial Japanese Navy, under the command of admiral Isoroku Yamamoto till April 1943 when he died after his plane was shot-down by US air...
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    the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 and was the flagship of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto during the attack on Pearl Harbor. She covered the withdrawal of the...
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  • shared with Rex T. Barber, for shooting down the plane carrying Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the commander in chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Most modern...
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    of its base at Pearl Harbor for a decisive showdown battle. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet (comprising all combat vessels)...
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    the Pacific Theater – the interception, on 18 April 1943, of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the architect of Japan's naval strategy in the Pacific including the...
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    the leader of Operation Vengeance, the mission to shoot down Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. He served in World War II and the Korean War. Mitchell was born in...
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    adopted the villainous Japanese gimmick of Tojo Yamamoto in reference to both Tojo and Isoroku Yamamoto. There is a 1983 song titled "Tojo" by Australian...
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