Yamamoto was a naval officer not an army officer...It is said he was shot before his aircraft hit the ground....he would have not looked pristine...

The pilot who shot his plane down was an ace - Richard Bang.

Rest in peace 😢🥀

The only Japanese leader I had any real respect for.

Lol. Japan is still trying to make up for its weak communications security.

Japs should've sent up several decoys with escorts running parallel fight paths 5-10 miles apart.

Lightning!!!

went down like a code broke bitch

Never get into a turning fight with a Zeke.

Much better CGI aircraft footage than for example the movie Midway which was total Carp (sic)!

Well, he maybe ok after crashing into the jungle. Ok, well maybe not.

People say he was against the war however, he took charge of it, he followed through, he prosecuted the war instead of resigning. I don't care how he felt about his role, he did it and he kept doing it. A man has choices. Stop apologizing for a murderer, if he hadn't died in battle the US would've executed him for Pearl Harbor.

Yamamato's pilot should have climbed as high and as fast as he could when they made first visual contact with enemy to make enemy overshoot and give his fighters time to counter attack,and then dive down to low level and hope the enemy runs out of ammo or fuel and buy his fighters time for second attack on attacker`s

Last thoughts … crap I left the water running

The man who shot down Yamamoto's plane was a guy called Rex Barber.

12.7mm弾が人体に命中したら、こんなもんじゃないだろう。 恐らく誰だか分からない。

何故、昭和天皇は統帥権を発動して停戦しなかったのでしょうか？ 伏見野宮博康王（昭和天皇より25歳年上で海軍軍人）が、暗躍していたそうです。明治憲法には、天皇は、陸海軍を統帥する旨が明記してあります。伏見野宮博康王は、皇室の海軍軍人で日露戦争に勝利しました。国力さは、10対１でしたが当時のロシアはロマノフ王朝で、レーニンが中心となり所謂内戦状態でした。明石大佐が、レーニンに接近し革命運動を手を貸し内部から国力を弱め、バルチック艦隊を東郷平八郎が撃滅し二百三高地を乃木希典・児玉源太郎が攻略したから勝利できたのです。太平洋戦争は、状況が違います。国力差は、２０対１です。アメリカの内部工作も不可能でした。既に、暗号も解読され日本のスパイが、春帆楼から真珠湾を偵察している事も知っていました。真珠湾攻撃は、ルーズベルト大統領が仕込んだ餌だったのです。リメンバー・パールハーバーのキャッチフレーズが、欲しかった事は後の資料から明らかになっています。軍部が、伏見野宮博康王を担ぎ出して昭和天皇に圧力をかけ、御前会議で四方の海（明治天皇の詩）を詠んで、木戸内大臣に感想を求めただけで開戦が決定しました。戦法としては、ハワイ真珠湾奇襲しかなかったのです。今になって考えれば、ハワイに上陸し日本の基地を造りアメリカ本土を攻撃していれば、勝算は有ったかもしれません。しかし、南雲機動部隊は第二次攻撃をしませんでした。完全に作戦負けです。

America failed to learn from Yamamoto and lost in Vietnam and Afghanistan.

it was a strategic mistake for the American's to target Yamamoto. He was predictable and therefor easy to anticipate and counter. the same reason they didn't target Hitler, he was doing more harm than good.

The is a real Japanese hero banzai Nippon ichi ban

His death did not make any difference to the end result of the whole war ?

Yamamoto said "the purpose of owing military weapons is not to conduct a war, but to prevent the war'

Is this the Plains of Abraham or everyones fallen hero Richtofen cast in The Pacific?

He had that look on his face as if he knew his demise was imminent.

Yamamoto was forced into this war. As a military man he did as was asked of him. He was educated in the USA He know what was going to happen. In fact he predicted it very accurately.

ゴジラと大差ないあたりが、ザキヤマ風。

american's couldn't have fought any harder to win they put it all on the line a perfect intercept

did ya ever get that feeling it's just not yer day

d real yamamoto's face was blasted by incoming fire

That look in his eyes when he realized he hadn't updated his car warranty with insurance.

Oh, making it look so reflective and glamorous.... I heard he was screaming like a little girl.

I often wonder whether Yamamoto's son ever met the American pilots on that mission.

山本五十六さんもDSのメンバーだろ？

TCB

American power

War is Hell.

he was the best they had

Context is always helpful. Yamamoto ran over the Brits in the Indian Ocean and the Brits and Dutch in Southeast Asia well before Pearl Harbor. He was already busy waging a war of conquest that included the atrocities in China. Not honorable. And Rommel was a Nazi, bought off by Hitler with bribe money, which was Hitler's practice in dealing with Wehrmacht commanders. It's called corruption. Also not honorable.

Surely it must have been obvious that all their codes had been broken yet no attempt to get a message off ?

You know not withstanding we broke their code I wouldn't be surprised if Tojo let it to be intercepted to eliminate the admiral.

Too bad he wasn't around to see the real results of his Pearl Harbor plan, the two mushroom clouds over the empire.

The Mitsubishi G4M2 Betty lacked self sealing tanks. They were nicknamed Zippos by American pilots.

He said he’s voting for Kamala! Yamamoto was a life long MAGA, but after hearing Kamala was in, he switched. All of kohls dept store clapped and cheered. Even the trannies walked out of the change rooms naked. It was a game changer.

people can say what they want about Yamamoto's part in pearl harbor, and of the attack on the US, from my studies and research, i have found NOTHING, that would imply he was a bad man or an agressive man, he was honorable, and a kind man to those who knew him, even to those who didnt know him but met him said the same thing, he was honorbound to follow his country where he was ordered (as is the tradition of the japanese people as a whole), R.I.P Isoroku Yamamoto, may your honor, values, and tradition be remembered by all.

A fitting requiem for an honorable man who was a true samurai.

This didnt stop the japanese from using their already cracked codes is crazy. The chance that the Americans are literally intercepting them in the middle of nowhere just the biggest coincidence of all time? Anyways, Yamamoto is a very fascinating figure to me and many others. Went down like many of the men he ordered.

In addition to the terrorist attack on Pearl Harbor, Yamamoto was responsible for countless American deaths - pardon me if I'm unmoved... This was the longest USAAF interception of the entire war (any theater) - requiring over 2.5 hours of wave-height flight in extreme heat on the way out to Bougainville with near perfect timing (arriving within a minute or two of the targeted time). FAFO....

He was his Emperor's sword.

Minor pedantic point, the P-38s that were flown on that mission were P-38Gs and should be green and gray painted.

Yamamoto was a good commander. I dont approv what the japanese did, but we have to respect an excellent commander.