Recognizing that it would be impossible in a single volume to discuss in detail the entire assault on Rabaul, Gamble closed his work with a chapter about the successful interception and killing of Japanese
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto by United States Army Air Force Lockheed P-38 pilots in April 1943.
His discussion of the weakness of Japan's strategic planning in the Pacific and its naval deficiencies in general is also convincing, though his relative lack of regard for
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto may surprise many readers.
He is even-handed, though, giving similar attention to the Japanese, as when
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto and his staff are war-gaming the upcoming attack on Midway Island.
(6) Instead, Kusaka states that
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's alleged unhappiness over the result of the attacks, as well as condemnations from others regarding the failure to attack cruisers, other vessels, and the base's fuel tanks, were all criticisms heard later, nothing more than "afterthoughts of poor strategists." (7) Third, Commander Minoru Genda, the First Air Fleet's staff air officer, acknowledged in his own memoirs that he was aware of the Tora!
This raid was so significant that it was studied carefully by
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto while planning his attack on Pearl Harbor thirteen months later.
It wasn't until much later that it was discovered that
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, commanding the Combined Fleet, had done just what Spruance feared he would do--try to compensate for Nagumo's dreadful defeat by sending a surface formation to meet the American fleet that everyone but Spruance thought should be driving west.
On page 32, in the margin, is a statement "Japanese
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was the Osama Bin Laden of World War II." However, in the article the author's point was that Americans in '43 hated Yamamoto as much as Americans hate Osama Bin Laden today.
Some say Japanese naval head
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's Alaskan plan was a feint, attempting to draw American forces away from the Battle of Midway, which started in the Midway Atoll on day two of the Dutch Harbor attack.
It is popularly understood that after the spectacular American victory at the battle of Midway the aircraft carrier reigned supreme; that war at sea was changed completely; and that the presence of America's two surviving carriers after the sinking of Admiral Chuichi Nagumo's four flattops forced the cancellation of the Midway invasion and the retreat of
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's eleven battleships, sixteen cruisers, and fifty-three destroyers from the Central Pacific.
Daniel Haulman likens Japanese
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the architect of the Pearl Harbor attack, to the modern terrorist Osama Bin Laden.
But in June 1942 a secondary Japanese force was dispatched to the Aleutians to invade Attu and Kiska as part of
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's plan to capture the North Pacific island of Midway.
No one understood this better than
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the 58-year-old commander of Japan's Combined Fleet.
