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How the U.S. Assassinated the Japanese Admiral Who Planned Pearl Harbor
The National Interest ^ | 04/16/2017 | Michael Peck

Posted on 04/17/2017 7:37:05 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas

Some sixty-eight years before U.S. special forces killed Osama bin Laden, America conducted an assassination of another kind.

This time, the target wasn’t a terrorist. It was the Japanese admiral who planned the Pearl Harbor operation. But the motive was the same: payback for a sneak attack on the United States.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalinterest.org ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: assassination; chat; clickbait; history; militaryhistory; pearlharbor; worldwar2; ww2; wwii; yamamoto
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To: BlueLancer
IIRC, it's been wargamed out a number of times, and the release of the extra panzers didn't change the end result. Made the landings a whole lot bloodier - for the British, again IIRC, but the Allies were still successful.

Air Power was 100% of the difference.

101 posted on 04/17/2017 12:26:10 PM PDT by wbill
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To: Da Coyote

Hooray for our expert code breakers. I love the movie, Midway, that portrays the Navy’s action. Also, the US task force lost most of its planes and pilots, brave brave men.


102 posted on 04/17/2017 12:30:41 PM PDT by jayrunner
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To: SpeedyInTexas

He wasn’t ‘assassinated’. He was a key strategic asset to the enemy. It was no more revenge than sinking carriers was revenge.


103 posted on 04/17/2017 1:01:13 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Seruzawa

Yamamoto was not the tyrant that Tojo was. He was in the US for a long period of time prior to the war and came to respect us greatly. I see him as closer to Germany’s Rommel.

Whereas Tojo was much more like Himmler if not Hitler himself. Tojo called the shots.


104 posted on 04/17/2017 1:01:41 PM PDT by reed13k
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To: reed13k

Tojo was just about to off Hirohito and prolong the war.


105 posted on 04/17/2017 1:02:28 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: catman67

One of my flight examiners was a p-38 pilot involved in this mission. I spent as much time talking to him as we did getting me signed off.


106 posted on 04/17/2017 1:05:44 PM PDT by Big Giant Head
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To: dfwgator

Rommel took care of that


107 posted on 04/17/2017 1:20:56 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: kearnyirish2

They were fighting for their living god...the emperor

The casualty and death estimates for the US were over a million soldiers. It would still be going on


108 posted on 04/17/2017 1:22:48 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

There’s a Japanese movie about Admiral Yamamoto. The melodrama is painful.

Here’s the ambush.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNNEj5-6aOk


109 posted on 04/17/2017 1:36:36 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Deportation mayhem is just birthing pains for a new America.)
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To: FreedomPoster

Bong museum?


110 posted on 04/17/2017 1:51:03 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Deportation mayhem is just birthing pains for a new America.)
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To: Leaning Right

The Americans knew where Yamamoto would be because they had broken the Japanese code. Quite risky in that the Japanese could have put 2 and 2 together, and realized that their code was compromised.
Germany did advise the Japanese that their code had been broken but the Japanese ignored this as they believed that their code was unbreakable.


111 posted on 04/17/2017 1:54:06 PM PDT by Recompennation
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To: samtheman

He did; he’d been to the US and seen the manufacturing here. He knew victory was impossible.


112 posted on 04/17/2017 1:57:29 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Nifster

Yes, I think the questioning of the A-bomb use in hindsight is absurd. Anyone who had family in uniform in the Pacific I’m sure was happy the bombs were dropped instead of invasion...


113 posted on 04/17/2017 1:59:40 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2
Yes, I think the questioning of the A-bomb use in hindsight is absurd. Anyone who had family in uniform in the Pacific I’m sure was happy the bombs were dropped instead of invasion...

Damn straight.

114 posted on 04/17/2017 2:03:10 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Totally B.S.
Yamamoto was a target of opportunity delivered by MAGIC

He was a Prime military target


115 posted on 04/17/2017 2:15:12 PM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Hillary is Ameritrash, pass it on)
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To: Rebelbase

I love saying that, but that’s what it is. It generally gets a raised eyebrow. Go to the link, it’s work safe.


116 posted on 04/17/2017 2:17:58 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: kearnyirish2

I just recently watched a documentary of Japan in the 20s and 30s. The control of the military over society was total.


117 posted on 04/17/2017 2:53:55 PM PDT by samtheman (Trump++)
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To: Rebelbase

Richard Bong. America’s leading ace in WWII, with 40 victories. Awarded the CMH.


118 posted on 04/17/2017 2:55:40 PM PDT by Flag_This (Liberals are locusts.)
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To: kearnyirish2

Yamamoto ironically enough was one of the few Japanese who understood and appreciated America. He had studied at Harvard and had been naval attache to America. He wasn’t enthusiastic about war with the United States but he was a loyal son of Imperial Japan.

I ran across a fellow whose last name is Lanphier. Asked him if he might be related to the pilot who was part of the Yamamoto raid and that turned out to be his uncle. The wreckage of Yamamoto’s Betty bomber was discovered a few years ago and is now on display at the Chino, CA airport where you can see quite a few still operational WWII aircraft.


119 posted on 04/17/2017 3:13:00 PM PDT by Pelham (Liberate California. Deport Mexico Now)
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To: Ouderkirk

I would think the enemy will be even more motivated to fight if you target his family.


120 posted on 04/17/2017 3:30:49 PM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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