WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR
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Admiral Hirohito
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Admiral Baker
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Admiral Yamamoto
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Admiral Nagumo
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Detailed explanation-1: -Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor would reportedly write in his diary, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
Detailed explanation-2: -Isoroku Yamamoto’s sleeping giant quote is a saying attributed to Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto regarding the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor by forces of Imperial Japan. The quote is portrayed at the very end of the 1970 film Tora!
Detailed explanation-3: -The quote was paraphrased in this year’s $140 million epic Pearl Harbor, with actor Mako as Yamamoto making the pronouncement. Richard Fleischer, director of Tora! Tora Tora!, and Elmo Williams, the film’s producer, maintain that the quote is factual, but both say that it was written, not spoken, by Yamamoto.
Detailed explanation-4: -Japan did essentially awaken a sleeping giant and, through its own actions, inadvertently sealed its fate. It wasn’t long after the United States started patrolling the Pacific that Japan saw its first major defeat, at Midway Atoll.