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Assassination is subjective. During a war, you are a target if you are in the military.
Yamamoto would have not negotiated a surrender. One reason he was sent to sea was the fear that some junior Army officers would murder him for being perceived as not aggressive enough. That was a real fear that Japanese senior officers and politicians carried with them. Junior officers carried out many assassinations.
The Imperial Army just before Hiroshima was spoiling for a fight with the US Army. They had never really fought us. We fought Japanese naval ground forces mostly in the Pacific. The Army would have killed Yamamoto if he’d counselled surrender.
Must not read much about WWII
It was not an assasination. We were at war He was a legit target as were any and all commanders
Ironically, as most of us around here already know, Yamamoto could have been a pretty cool guy, excepting the fact that he was an enemy Admiral at war with us, getting his orders from evil insane warlords.
And he knew it at the time.
Put him next to Rommel or Stauffenberg, one would suppose, except they met their fate by different means.
that word doesn't mean what they think it means...Old news regurgitated with a left-wing slant! Assassination: BS!
Ridiculous spin. This was not an assassination, it was a military operation against any enemy military aircraft carrying an admiral.
IIRC a flight of P-38s got him after learning his upcoming meeting on some island in the Pacific. They patrolled that area for days to not arouse suspicion they new how to decode their traffic.
It was an attack on a legitimate military target. "Assassination" will get more page clicks, though.
He wasn’t ‘assassinated’. He was a key strategic asset to the enemy. It was no more revenge than sinking carriers was revenge.
There’s a Japanese movie about Admiral Yamamoto. The melodrama is painful.
Here’s the ambush.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNNEj5-6aOk
Totally B.S.
Yamamoto was a target of opportunity delivered by MAGIC
He was a Prime military target