biography
pronunciation:
[yamamohtoh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1884–1943)
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| biography:
| Japanese naval officer, born in Nagaoka, Japan. He trained at the Naval Academy, Etajima, and became naval attaché at the Japanese embassy in the USA (1926–8), chief of the aviation department of the Japanese navy (1935), and vice-navy minister (1936–9). Admiral (1940), and commander-in-chief of the combined fleet (1939–43), he planned and directed the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. His forces were defeated at the Battle of Midway (June 1942), and he was killed when his plane was shot down over the Solomon Is. |
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