Yamamoto: "A war with America is a bad idea."
Anima and Tojo: "Okay let's go to war with America, you're in charge."

Normal people finance their gambling with their work.
Yamamoto financed his work with his gambling.

"How do we name this child?"
"Let's see...what's my age again?"

Yamamoto’s final trip WAS a morale booster indeed - for the Americans, the Australians, the British, the Phillipinos, etc...

Definitely not “murder”! He was a high-value enemy combatant flying in a military aircraft in a war zone.

One issue I have: Yamamoto was fully aware of the value of aircraft carriers in naval warfare. He was the guy who refined Japan’s carrier doctrine after all. One of the key objectives of Operation Ai was the sinking of the American carriers in port, an objective he himself set. The only reason our carriers weren’t sunk was that they had left port mere days before the attack.

Trivia point:  Yamamoto lost two fingers at Tsushima.  Had he lost three, he would have been invalidated out of service.  But by a finger did he eventually become commander of the Japanese fleet.

I like to think even Yamamoto would agree that his death wasn't a "Mid air assassination" but a mission to kill a high value target in a bomber under fighter escort in a warzone.

Murder?  That's garbage.  The man was a combatant in a war zone.  I suspect he would also reject this characterization.

Just so you know, the USS Nevada was not sunk but beached. It was taken back to San Diego, repaired, and sent to Scapa Flow north of Scotland in the Orkney Islands where it sailed with the battleships Texas and Arkansas and participated in the Normandy Landings on 6 June 1944 providing artillery support on the beaches.

"Murdered?"  Those who were killed at Pearl Harbor without a declaration of war were murdered.  Yamamoto's death was an act of war against an enemy soldier.

Good thing his father wasn't 69 when he was born.

I believe Yamamoto also warned not to wake a sleeping giant. Had they paid attention to that the destruction of most of Japan would not have happened.

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You reported from an angle that I never had before.  I have always been taught Admiral Yamamoto was hoping for the carriers at Pearl Harbor, and their survival was a disappointment. More, when he learned that Pearl Harborr was struck before the Declaration of War, he was said to state "we have awakened a sleeping giant."

Dude, childhood must really suck for a kid whose name is literally '56' :/

Speaking of Navies in the Russo-Japanese war, i encourage everyone to look into the Russian 2nd Pacific Sqaudren if you want a good laugh. The amount of incompetence led to the funniest series of events ive ever read. Im shocked someone hasnt made a dark comedy about it

Murdered? It was a combat fatality.

Speaking of the blitzkrieg, i would really love to see one of these done on von moltke "the big person of silence", the military counterpart of the diplomat Bismarck. He invented the german blitzkrieg and let prussia to victory in the 3 wars of unification by leading a proto blitz, foretold the first worldwar in shocking detail and was also as a person quite fascinating, as he for example despite being the military leader always accepted otto von Bismarcks primat of diplomacy and didn't use his success to take over power, seeing as Bismarck the dangers of german dominance and the threat of a great war and dedicating himself to avoid it

"Murder" is a false understatement for killing someone who was the mastermind in attacking Pearl Harbor.