A Japanese naval officer wrote a letter on the battleship Musashi, but what he did not expect was that his letter would eventually become a suicide note, and the naval officer was Yamamoto Isoroku.
Yamamoto Isoroku, commander of the Combined Fleet of the Japanese Navy during World War II, in the eyes of the Japanese he is a myth of the Navy, known as the "Pacific Vulture", he is only 1 meter 59 tall, typical short man, he has the courage and strategy, arrogant and arrogant, his real name is not actually Yamamoto Isoroku, the original name is Takano Fifty-Six, is the sixth son of a Samurai named Takano Sadayoshi in Japan, he was born that year, Takano was just 56 years old, so he named his son Takano Fifty-Six, in 1915 followed his righteous father Yamamoto with a sword, Then he changed his surname to Yamamoto, so it became Yamamoto Fifty-Six.
He also had the title of "Eight Cents", and during the Russo-Japanese Naval Battle, his left index and middle fingers were blown off, so he often wore a pair of white gloves to hide his ugly appearance of only eight fingers. Yamamoto is very, often in and out of the geisha place, like to trim nails, at that time the cost of trimming a finger is a dime, normal people are one dollar, and Yamamoto only needs eight cents, so there is a eight cents this name.
Yamamoto is more gambling than lustful, but he is often forbidden to enter the casino because his gambling skills are really too great, and he once threatened, "If I bet all over Europe, I can gamble back a warship for the Empire." ”
Yamamoto's ability to gamble was also used on the battlefield, and in the early morning of December 7, 1941, he placed a bet on Pearl Harbor in the United States, and he let the Japanese Combined Fleet send a large number of aircraft to suddenly attack pearl harbor, the base of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, and in just over an hour, the U.S. fleet was blown to pieces, and there was no way to fight back, and suffered huge losses!
The Pearl Harbor incident made the United States directly declare war on Japan, and it was even more hateful to this Yamamoto Fifty-Six! There is a saying among the officers and men of the U.S. Navy: "Yamamoto is not dead, and every star on the Star-Spangled Banner is no longer bright!" ”
So in 1943, the United States began to implement a top-secret operation against Yamamoto Isoroku, code-named "Revenge Project", and the planner of the operation was the five-star general Nimitz of the US army! These two were old rivals, and during the Pacific War, the two of them each led their own troops to fight most of the Pacific.
Nimitz knew that Yamamoto was an unusual person, and for the first time he put an aircraft carrier formation into actual combat, sweeping across the entire western Pacific, with extraordinary ability.
Yamamoto was also very familiar with the United States, and in April 1919, Yamamoto was ordered to study at Harvard University in the United States, specializing in the national conditions of the United States. When he was in school, he used all kinds of methods to approach people from all walks of life in the United States, and after graduation, he also worked as a military attaché at the Japanese Embassy in the United States for three years.
After Pearl Harbor, Nimitz had already conceived a plan to assassinate Yamamoto, and in order to completely eliminate his threat to the United States, only by killing Yamamoto could he destroy the entire Japanese Navy!
Yamamoto also knew that the U.S. military had always wanted to assassinate him, and his whereabouts began to become more mysterious and difficult to understand. Nimitz, who was desperate to kill Yamamoto, never found the right opportunity.
It wasn't until April 14, 1943, that the time finally came. On this day Nimitz was in his office reviewing documents as usual, and Naval Staff Officer Edwin Layton delivered him a newly deciphered Japanese telegram.
The telegram read: "The GF commander is scheduled to visit Baler, Shoreland and Buinki on April 18, and the specific itinerary is to take a medium bomber at six o'clock in the morning, escorted by six fighter jets, take off from Rabaul, arrive at Baler at eight o'clock, then transfer to a submarine hunting, arrive at Shortland at 8:40, leave the Buin base at fourteen o'clock with a medium bomber, and return to Rabaul at 15:40. ”
And GF is the code name of the Japanese Combined Fleet, and the GF commander is Yamamoto Isoroku!
Seeing this, Nimitz was immediately excited, but after the excitement, he felt that something was wrong, Yamamoto Isoroku was a very old and cunning person, how could he reveal his whereabouts so easily by telegram, was he not afraid that the US military would decipher the telegram? This may be a smoke bomb deliberately released by Yamamoto to lure the US troops into the bait, and then take the opportunity to sneak up on the US troops.
Nimitz was skeptical of the authenticity of the telegram, but after careful consideration, he told Layton that it was most likely Yamamoto's itinerary.
After a series of defeats at Midway and Guadalcanal, Yamamoto was ready to make a final bet in the South Pacific and launched operation code-named Operation I.
The Japanese sent a large number of aircraft to the east to pounce on the Allied ships in Guadalcanal and Tulaj ports under U.S. control, but this operation the Japanese army was completely inferior and did not achieve the expected effect at all, but the leader of the Japanese army led the team to make Yamamoto Fifty-Six happy, forged a fake combat report, saying that the Japanese combat effect was very obvious, causing huge damage to the American army.
And Yamamoto also credulously believed this combat report, when the "I-no-no- operation" was nearing the end, according to the "brilliant results" of the Japanese army's own statistics, Yamamoto believed that the "I-no-no-no- operation" had achieved a huge victory, and the US troops on Guadalcanal should only have the ability to breathe, so there was a later trip plan, to go to the front line to inspect, boost morale, who knew that Yamamoto Fifty-Six was deceived by his own people, and this deception directly let him go to see God!
Originally, Yamamoto had asked his lieutenant to send a special person to hand over the itinerary plan to the chief officer of the three bases that were about to be inspected, but the officer in charge of communications at that time proposed to send it in the form of a telegram, because the Japanese telegram had just activated a new code, which was extremely difficult to decipher the 5-digit code, and the Americans could not decipher it at all, and it was absolutely safe!
But what Yamamoto did not expect was that a few hours later the telegram was deciphered by the US intelligence services, it turned out that the New Zealand Navy's light cruiser "Kiewe" had sunk a Japanese submarine near the guadalcanal waters on January 29, 1943, and searched for the latest Japanese codebook on this submarine, and the Japanese Navy was unaware of this matter.
Nimitz immediately developed a battle plan and obtained the consent of President Roosevelt. Nimitz immediately began the operation, which he named "The Revenge Project."
Escorting Yamamoto Fifty-Six were six Zero fighters, which caused unprecedented damage to the Allies and were very powerful, so in order to deal with this powerful opponent, Nimitz chose to use the P-38 fighter, which was equipped with two engines, and its combat power was equally strong, and it was called "twin-engine demon" by the Japanese.
Nimitz gave the order to Commander william Halsey of the Pacific Fleet on 15 April, and halsey briefed the Commander of the Solomon Islands Air Force, Mark Mitchell, of the schedule, asking him to dispatch P-38 fighter jets and make him do whatever it takes to eliminate Yamamoto Fifty-Six!
In order not to be discovered by the Japanese, Mitchell selected only 18 pilots. Takeoff began at 5:10 a.m. on April 18, and the fighters remained radio silent along the way, using only compasses for navigation. At exactly 6 o'clock, Yamamoto's bombers also began to take off, and six escortEd Zero fighters also took off.
After more than two hours of flight, the U.S. troops arrived at the predetermined location, and Yamamoto Wasoroku was also punctual, appearing in the field of vision of the U.S. troops at 7:34. The battle began, the U.S. military used several planes to divert the Japanese escort aircraft, squad leader Thomas Lanffer and other Yamamoto bombers into range, began to shoot wildly, Yamamoto's bomber right engine was hit, began to catch fire, three minutes later, the plane fell into the primeval forest, and later found eleven bodies on the ground where the plane crashed, one of which was Yamamoto Fifty-Six!
In order to reduce the impact, the Japanese Navy began to conceal the death of Yamamoto Isoroku. On April 21, Yamamoto's body was cremated on a farm, and on April 23, Yamamoto's ashes were transported to the Japanese battleship Musashi, and on May 21, the Musashi arrived in Tokyo Bay, and Yamamoto's death was announced in Japan. On June 5, 1943, Japanese authorities performed a state funeral for Yamamoto At Hibiya Park in Tokyo.
After Yamamoto's death, a suicide note was found in Yamamoto's office on the Musashi, which read, "Serving the country with death is actually the duty of a soldier, so how dare you ask whether it is on the battlefield or after the war." On May 31, 1914, he was placed at the Vice-Admiral's Residence. ”
Some people say that Yamamoto Isoroku voluntarily went to die, because he found that the defeat of the Japanese Navy was decided and could not be recovered, so he decided to die on the battlefield with his own body.
There is a definite number in the darkness! Yamamoto Isoroku, the war executioner, has been doomed to live ever since he implemented The I-Kai Plan!
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