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Also Known As Takano Isoroku
Born April 4, 1884 • Nagaoka • Japan
Died April 18, 1943 (aged 59) • Solomon Islands
Role In Battle of Midway • Pearl Harbor attack • World War II • Pacific War

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Yamamoto Isoroku.
(Left to right) Capt. Yamamoto Isoroku, Japanese naval attaché in Washington, D.C., U.S. Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur, another Japanese naval officer, and Adm. Edward W. Eberle, chief of U.S. naval operations, Feb. 17, 1926.
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