The story of the I-400 begins with a Japanese admiral shortly after the bombings of Pearl Harbor Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet in the Pacific ...

Shortly before 8 a.m. PST on December 7, 1941, a beautiful Sunday morning, the air and naval forces of the Japanese Empire commenced a surprise attack on the U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor.

In January 1941, however, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto proposed that the decades-old strategy be scrapped in favor of one calling for a first strike on the U.S. Pacific Fleet. It was not a completely ...

In the wake of the attack,” Curran said, “(Admiral Isoroku) Yamamoto was said to have commented ‘I fear all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant, and filled him with a terrible resolve.’” ...

The most prescient observation came from the man who masterminded the attack itself, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. He wrote in his diary, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and ...

Japanese Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto was given the assignment to plan the attack on the Pacific Fleet. Yamamoto, who attended Harvard and was Japan’s naval attaché to the United States, had warned ...

5. The attack’s planner knew it would only buy them six months, and they would eventually lose the war Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who planned the attack, warned fellow leaders that the attack ...

Following the destruction at Pearl Harbor, the commanding Japanese admiral, Isoroku Yamamoto, stated to his subordinate officers that “I fear we have only awakened a sleeping giant.” ...

In the 1930s, both the US and Japan thought war was inevitable, but despite warnings, Americans didn't believe the Japanese could strike Pearl Harbor ...

The Japanese Imperial Navy killed or wounded approximately four thousand American sailors and soldiers on 7, 1941.