Commander Bio:Tamon Yamaguchi (1892-1942) was a Rear Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy (from 1938). The future naval commander was named after a famous Japanese medieval hero, in both life and death, Yamaguchi proved worthy of the name given to him.
As an officer of a Japanese ship squadron, he fought in the Mediterranean during World War I. In the 1920s-30s, Yamaguchi served in high-ranking positions, and between 1934 and 1936, he was the naval attaché in Washington. From 1938, Yamaguchi participated in the Sino-Japanese War, during which he commanded an aircraft carrier group. He trained the 2nd Carrier Division (Sōryū and Hiryo) for the attack on Pearl Harbor and was instrumental in the success of this operation. Then, as head of a carrier force, his Kidő Butal decimated the South Seas: Wake
Island, Dutch East Indies, Darwin, and Ceylon, On June 6, 1942, during the Battle of Midway, Yamaguchi sparred with Vice Admiral Choichi Nagumo, demanding that the American carriers be attacked Immediately. He failed to be persuasive, and soon after, U.S, aircraft destroyed all the Japanese carriers, except for Yamaguchi's flagship, Hiryů, Her planes managed to hit aircraft carrier Yorktown, but then Hiryo was fatally damaged, too. Yamaguchi refused to leave the ship and went down with her. |
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