Yamamoto Isoroku was born in 1884 to a samurai family. Early Career (1904–1922) Portrait of Yamamoto just prior to the Russo- Japanese War, 1905. This essay will explore Yamamoto’s military career in the context of Imperial Japan’s aggressive expansion into Asia beginning in the 1890s and abruptly ending with Japan’s formal surrender on September 2, 1945, to the US and its Allies. Yamamoto was a naval officer who appreciated and understood the strategic and technological advantages of naval aviation. The attack was devised and fashioned by Admiral Yamamoto, whose entire military career seems to have been leading to this very moment. On the morning of December 7, 1941, Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) aircraft set out on one of the most famous operations in military history: a surprise air attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawai`i.
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