Of course Roosevelt knew that Yamamoto was dead, and that we had shot him down, enabled to do so by our ability to read their dispatches. You gotta love the speculation/disinformation that perhaps he killed himself. Working on Japanese morale.
Our decoding ability couldn’t be made public. But the info at the time is interesting. I propose the Japanese were truly confused on this issue as we continued to intercept their intelligence info.
Hadn’t heard about the gosh comment by Roosevelt before. This is similar to the Shangri-La statement released. I wonder if there were similar responses to other events.
Mineichi Koga was born in Japan in 1885. He joined the Japanese Navy and served as a naval attaché in Paris before being given command of the Yokosuka Naval Station.
Koga was appointed vice chief of the Naval Staff Board in December 1937 and after the bombing of Pearl Harbor he took part in the capture of Hong Kong.
In April 1943, Admiral Kogo replaced Isoruku Yamamoto as commander in chief of the Combined Fleet. He was unable to halt the decline in the country’s fortunes and presided over the start of Japanese withdrawals from the Gilbert Islands and the Philippines.
Mineichi Koga was killed when on 31st March 1944 his aircraft crashed into the sea. His death was not announced until May 1944 when he was replaced as commander in chief by Soemu Toyoda.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWkoga.htm
If you do a search for “gosh says Roosevelt” you will find multiple references from the same source in regard to targeted killings
In these recent references Roosevelt was truly astonished! but had also encouraged the targeting. What is your take on the overall article?