Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 107. Chapters: Isoroku Yamamoto, Togo Heihachiro, Kantaro Suzuki, Saito Makoto, Nobutake Kondo, Takeo Kurita, Chuichi Nagumo, Raizo Tanaka, Akiyama Saneyuki, Teijiro Toyoda, Gunichi Mikawa, Mitsumasa Yonai, Shigeyoshi Inoue, Shigeru Fukudome, Enomoto Takeaki, Kakuji Kakuta, Osami Nagano, Chuichi Hara, Minoru Ota, Yamamoto Gonnohyoe, Isamu Takeshita, Sankichi Takahashi, Takatsugu Jojima, Tadashige Daigo, Aritomo Goto, Kichisaburo Nomura, Takijiro Onishi, Jisaburo Ozawa, Koso Abe, Arima Ryokitsu, Takakazu Kinashi, Kaju Sugiura, Soemu Toyoda, Takeo Takagi, Yuzuru Hiraga, Masatomi Kimura, Prince Arisugawa Takehito, Shigetaro Shimada, Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu, Matome Ugaki, Mineichi Koga, Teruo Akiyama, Kiyohide Shima, Ogasawara Naganari, Sentaro Omori, Kosaku Aruga, Masafumi Arima, Saigo Tsugumichi, Nishizo Tsukahara, Hiroaki Abe, Takarabe Takeshi, Jinichi Kusaka, Shunji Isaki, Shoji Nishimura, Tamon Yamaguchi, Kato Tomosaburo, Kiyokazu Abo, Naokuni Nomura, Shintaro Hashimoto, Dewa Shigeto, Keisuke Okada, Kozo Sato, Kabayama Sukenori, Sato Tetsutaro, Mineo Osumi, Seiichi Ito, Sadamichi Kajioka, Shigematsu Sakaibara, Tomoshige Samejima, Sadayoshi Yamada, Yamaya Tanin, Ibo Takahashi, Prince Kuni Asaakira, Kamimura Hikonojo, Boshiro Hosogaya, Kiyoto Kagawa, Keizo Komura, Prince Higashifushimi Yorihito, Shigekazu Shimazaki, Naomasa Sakonju, Shigeyoshi Miwa, Matsuji Ijuin, Misu Sotaro, Koichi Shiozawa, Shimamura Hayao, Itoh Sukeyuki, Susumu Kimura, Kataoka Shichiro, Koshiro Oikawa, Ijuin Goro, Tomiji Koyanagi, Uryu Sotokichi, Sokichi Takagi, Yashiro Rokuro, Michitaro Totsuka, Murakami Kakuichi, Arichi Shinanojo, Yamashita Gentaro, Ryunosuke Kusaka, Zengo Yoshida, Gengo Hyakutake, Inoue Yoshika, Sadatoshi Tomioka, Masaichi Niimi, Teruhisa Komatsu, Nashiba Tokioki, Tsuboi Kozo, Mitsumi Shimizu, Kiichi Hasegawa, Michiaki Kamada, Hajime Matsushita, Sano Tsuneha, Nire Kagenori, Shiro Takasu, Shibayama Yahachi, Tamotsu Oishi, Keiji Shibazaki, Kuninori Marumo, Ryusaku Yanagimoto, Kaoru Arima, Nobuzo Tohmatsu, Nakamuta Kuranosuke, Kawamura Sumiyoshi, Tsunejiro Ishii, Shimazu Tadashige, Ito Toshiyoshi, Matsudaira Morio, Saneyoshi Yasuzumi, List of Imperial Japanese Navy admirals, Prince Kacho Hirotsune, List of Japanese naval commanders, Gensui, Hisanori Fujita. Excerpt: Isoroku Yamamoto Yamamoto Isoroku, 4 April 1884 ¿ 18 April 1943) was a Japanese Naval Marshal General and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II, a graduate of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy and a student of Harvard University (1919¿1921). Yamamoto held several important posts in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and undertook many of its changes and reorganizations, especially its development of naval aviation. He was the commander-in-chief during the decisive early years of the Pacific War and so was responsible for major battles such as Pearl Harbor and Midway. He died during an inspection tour of forward positions in the Solomon Islands when his aircraft (a Mitsubishi G4M "Betty" bomber) was shot down during an ambush by American P-38 Lightning fighter planes. His death was a major blow to Japanese military morale during World War II. Yamamoto was born as Isoroku Takano Takano Isoroku) in Nagaoka, Niigata. His father was Takano Sadayoshi Takano Sadayoshi), an intermediate samurai of the Nagaoka Domain. "Isoroku" is an old Japanese term meaning "56"; the name referred to his father's age at Isoroku's birth. In 1916, Isoroku was adopted...
