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.
Interesting; I remember when they found the plane he’d died in.
American POWs were surprised at how many Japanese officers spoke English well; many had studied in the US.