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  2. Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quote - Wikipedia

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    , Richard Fleischer, stated that while Yamamoto may never have said those words, the film's producer, Elmo Williams, had found the line written in Yamamoto's diary. Williams, in turn, has stated that Larry Forrester, the screenwriter, found a 1943 letter from Yamamoto to the Admiralty in Tokyo containing the quotation.

  3. Isoroku Yamamoto - Wikipedia

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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 of the Combined Fleet during World War II.

  4. List of foreign recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron ...

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    Eight of these men were also honoured with the next higher grade, the Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross, and one senior naval officer, Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, was additionally awarded the Swords to the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves. Among the recipients were eighteen Romanians, nine Italians, eight Hungarians, two Slovaks, two Japanese ...

  5. Tora! Tora! Tora! - Wikipedia

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    Director Richard Fleischer stated that while Yamamoto may never have said those words, the film's producer, Elmo Williams, had found the line written in Yamamoto's diary. Williams, in turn, has stated that Larry Forrester, the screenwriter, found a 1943 letter from Yamamoto to the Admiralty in Tokyo containing the quotation.

  6. Isoroku (film) - Wikipedia

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    "Combined Fleet Commander Isoroku Yamamoto: Truth of the Pacific War 70 Years Ago") is a 2011 Japanese biographical film about Isoroku Yamamoto, the Imperial Japanese Navy's (IJN) Marshal Admiral and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II. Other English home media titles of the film are The Admiral, [5] and Admiral ...

  7. Eagle of the Pacific - Wikipedia

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    Denjirō Ōkōchi as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto [6] Hiroshi Nihonyanagi as Commander Furukawa [2] Eijirô Yanagi as Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai [2] Minoru Takada as Prince Fumimaro Konoe [2] Masao Shimizu as Commander Kashima [2] Ichiro Sugai as Admiral Koshirō Oikawa [2] Toshiro Mifune as First Lieutenant Tomonaga [2] Takashi Shimura as Staff ...

  8. Operation Vengeance - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Battle of Midway order of battle - Wikipedia

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    Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto (HQ aboard BB Yamato) Adm. Chester W. Nimitz (HQ at Pearl Harbor) This is the order of battle for the Battle of Midway , a major engagement of the Pacific Theatre of World War II , fought 4–7 June 1942 by naval and air forces of Imperial Japan and the United States in the waters around Midway Atoll in the far ...