Person1884 – 1943
Yamamoto Isoroku
Commander of Japan’s Combined Fleet who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Midway operation; shot down over the South Pacific in 1943
Where they went
2 related events
- 1
Japanese naval aircraft made a surprise attack on the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. America entered the war, which spread across the Pacific (the Pacific War).
- 2
Having broken Japan’s codes, the US Navy ambushed the Japanese fleet bound for Midway and sank four carriers, turning the tide of the Pacific War.
Related works
- Film: Tora! Tora! Tora!DramatizedFilm · 1970 · Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda, Kinji Fukasaku
Dramatized works (films, dramas, novels) may differ from the historical record.
People who appear alongside
- Franklin D. Roosevelt1882 – 1945
32nd US president (1933–1945) who led the New Deal and took the US to war after Pearl Harbor; he attended the Cairo and Yalta conferences
- Chester W. Nimitz1885 – 1966
Commander of the US Pacific Fleet who directed the Battle of Midway and signed Japan’s instrument of surrender for the United States
Themes this person appears in
- Republican China and Imperial Japan1912 – 1949
The age when the Republic of China, born of the 1911 Revolution, passed through warlord division, the May Fourth Movement, the United Front and the Northern Expedition, fought Japan’s invasion and split in civil war — as Japan moved from Taishō democracy through the Manchurian Incident and military coups to the war in China and the Co-Prosperity Sphere, and colonized Korea resisted through the March First Movement and armed struggle
- World War II1939 – 1945
From the invasion of Poland to the surrender of Japan — the largest war in human history, across Europe, Asia and the Pacific