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Isoroku Yamamoto

Japanb. 4 April 1884 · d. 18 April 1943Add to favourites

Commander-in-chief of Japan's Combined Fleet from 30 August 1939 until his death. He planned the surprise attack on the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, and lost four Japanese carriers to US forces at the Battle of Midway in June 1942, which halted Japan's early advances. US codebreakers intercepted his travel plans and US Army Air Forces P-38s shot down his aircraft over Bougainville on 18 April 1943 in Operation Vengeance.