F.B.D. 3-10-42 

U.P. 5-20-43 

82432, 5-23-43 

83~8 3-26-43 

FCC G6 8-10-43 

FCC AA3 9-13-43 

FCC FCS 10-1-44 

YAMAMOTO ,ISOROKU 

Comnander in Chief of Jap combined staff. 

Kil1ed in airplane crash. 

Italy and Germany lave conferrid their highest decoration 

on him due to his heroic death. 

I 

Italy sends eross of Savoy 

A citation had been conferred on mobile unit attacking Dutch 

Harbor acknowledged by the Emperor Aug. 9. 

Close friend of Capt. Kunio Toibana. 

Quote from a letter of his to a friend. Used to bear out the 

"Yamamoto Spirit" of bravery at the front in a home broadcast 

by Fumio Goto. 

0 S S Born 1884 During his career served as N.A. in America in 1925; Delegateto London Naval Conference in 1929. Chief of Naval Avia. Hqs. of 1st Air Force. 

Vice-Minister of Navy from 1936-1939, when he became Cmdr. in Chief of Combined 

Fleets. Died early in 1943 in action. RePorted to rave said in 1941 11 ! am 

looking .t:orward to dictating peace terms in the Vlhite HoU9e. n 

UP 5020-43 Killed in airplane crash. 

May 1943 ATIS SWPA-267-SB30872 Apr 10, 1944. Did not camnit suicide as repprted. 

121787 Tokyo/Cir. 4 May 44 - Admiral Koga•s death in action is comparable to 

Yamamoto 1s. 

26 May 44 ATIS-2940 WD4355 - 26 May 44 - Rumored among troops that this Admiral 

was killed in plane crash. 

Out Post Rpt. China Div. WD-00781.44 8 Oct 44. Member of medium .faction which 

wavers more or less with regard to the war against Great Britain and U.S. This 

faction is divided into two cliques, those who are in favor of the Viar and those 

who waver. Yamamoto is representative of latter clique. Was recently killed in 

action. 

OWI DIO SN-46-45 25 Mar. 46 - WD-145362. Was not killed outright in plane 

accident. Was actuaJ.q seriousq wounded while in night. Was blB'Ought back to 

shore alive and died of Vl)unds after four days. 

NYHLC 3;5; 31Juq 45. Burned to death when 50 American fighters shot down the 

bomber in which he was a i:assenger over the Solomon's. The first detailed accomt 

ot Yamamoto•s death in April 1943 was told by a Korean bo:rn Jap correspondent, 

Shizuo Suguira who was taken prisoner on northern Luzon. 

cb NlTLC 6;4; 10 Sept. 45 - U.S. intelligence broke a Jap code am death resulted 

for Adm. Yamamoto, commander in chief of the Jap. Navy. Yamamoto died in a fiaming 

Jap bomber over the Solomons in April 1943, shot dovm by U.S. airmen who knew in 

advance the course his aerial convoy was to follow. A long-unrevealed U.S. version 

eclassified and a roved for release b NSA on 05-28-2014 ursuantto E.O. 1352 

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YAMAMOTO, Isoroku 

ot the trap was written b7 J. Norman Lodge of the AP, then a ccrrespondent in the 

Fouth Pacific. The eneJDT code was cracked in March or April 1943. We knew the 

time Yamamoto 110uld leave Truk: and wl'at time he would arrive at Buka and leave 

Buka tor Kahilli or Ballale. A Jap version of the attack was rumiahed last 

Jul.J' b7 a Jap correspondent captured in the Philippines, Shiza Sugiura, ot 

Asahi, who said Yamamoto •s shot down over Shortland Is. 

m l; 6; l2 Sept, 45 - Lt. Col, Thomas G. Lanphier was ident.ified b7 the War 

Dept. as the man who shot darn the plane carrying Adm. Isoroku Yamam.oto in 

April 1943.