Admiraal Isoroku Yamamoto (Japan). NI 1717 Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese Navy, (1884-1943).

Admiraal Isoroku Yamamoto (Japan). NI 1717 Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese Navy, (1884-1943). As a Captain, he served as Naval Attache to the United States in 1925-28. In the late 1920s and during the 1930s, he held a number of important positions, with Japanese naval aviation. Admiral Yamamoto commanded the Combined Fleet before the outbreak of the Pacific War and during its first sixteen months. He was responsible for planning the Attack on Pearl Harbor. His scheme for eliminating the U.S. fleet as a major opponent led to the June 1942 Battle of Midway, in which the Japan lost naval superiority in the Pacific. While on an inspection tour in the Northern Solomon Islands, he was killed in an aerial ambush by U.S. Army Air Force planes on 18 April 1943.