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Captain Isoroku Yamamoto, 30 Jan 1928 Yamamoto was part of the Japanese Navy establishment, who were rivals of the more aggressive Army establishment, especially the officers of the Kwantung Army . He promoted a policy of a strong fleet to project force through gunboat diplomacy , rather than a fleet used primarily for the transport of invasion ...
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of the Imperial Japanese Navy, scheduled an inspection tour of the Solomon Islands and New Guinea.He planned to inspect Japanese air units participating in Operation I-Go that had begun 7 April 1943; in addition, the tour would boost Japanese morale following the disastrous Guadalcanal campaign and its subsequent evacuation during January and February.
Yamato communicated this message to the other surviving ships by signal flag because her radios had been destroyed. [46] Only known photo of Yamato exploding [33] Itō, along with Captain Kōsaku Aruga, who commanded Yamato for the battle, refused to abandon ship, with Itō retiring to the flag cabin while Aruga tied himself to the binnacle. [47]
Requiem for Battleship Yamato (戦艦大和ノ最期, lit. The Last Days of the Battleship Yamato (Senkan Yamato no Saigo)) is a book by Mitsuru Yoshida. It tells the story of the Japanese battleship Yamato's last battle, Operation Ten-Go in 1945, when the ship was sunk, which the author experienced himself. It was first published in 1949.
Yamato after being hit by a bomb during the Battle of the Sibuyan Sea on 24 October 1944; the hit did not cause serious damage. Between 22 and 25 October 1944, as part of Admiral Takeo Kurita's Center Force (also known as Force A or First Striking Force), Yamato took part in one of the largest naval engagements in history—the Battle of Leyte ...
Captain Jūzō Okita (沖田 十三 [1], Okita Jūzō) (Captain Abraham Avatar): The stern captain of the Yamato, utterly devoted to his mission to save Earth from the Garmillas threat, even at the cost of his own life. Before becoming a captain of the UNCF he was a famous captain, star of a popular fish brand called Findus, but, after the ...
In Yutaka Abe's 1953 film 戦艦大和 Senkan Yamato (lit. "Battleship Yamato"), Aruga was portrayed by Takamaru Sasaki. [7] [8] In Shūe Matsubayashi's 1963 film 太平洋の翼 Taiheiyo no tsubasa (lit. "Wings Over the Pacific", later released in the United States under the titles Attack Squadron! and Kamikaze), Aruga was portrayed by ...
Yamato (男たちの大和, Otoko-tachi no Yamato, literally "The Men's Yamato") is a 2005 Japanese war film. It was directed by Junya Satō and is based on a book by Jun Henmi . With a framing story set in the present day, by flashbacks it tells the story of the crew of the World War II Japanese battleship Yamato , concentrating on the ship's ...