The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-21
YAMAMOT0 KILLED
 IN PACIFIC FIGHT
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The broadcast then described 1t as "a gallant death on the foremost front in April of this year while he was personally directing the opera tions in an airplane which engaged the enemy"
 The foremost front" presumably was somewhere in the broad reaches Of the Pacific where the extended Japanese sea bases face constant blows from Allied air power.
 The EGG said that the Tokyo an- nouncer choked, as If weeping, when he read the death notice and that he had to break off. The radio filled In with wrestling match broadcast
 The Berlin broadcast said Em- peror Hirohito made Yamamato a marshal in posthumous promo ton and that the funeral would be observed as a day of national mourning. Date of the funeral was not given.
 Koga, q member of the Japanese naval staff board and former com mander of the Japanese fleet units in Chinese waters, already is in command of the combined fleet, the EGG recording said.
 Yamamoto, who lost several fin- gers in the Russo Japanese war in 1905, was an expert flyer, He was a small, vigorous man and formerly headed the Japanese navy's ayia- ton division.
 His letter reported by Domei said he would not be content with cap- turing Guam, the Philippines and with plans 10 occupy Hawaii and San Francisco" in case of war with the United States. He wanted, he said, to go back to Washington where he once was a naval attachc and dictate terms from the presi- dents residence.
 Yamamoto was a delegate 10 the London naval conferences of 1880 and 1884 where he argued that apan should be allowed q bigger navy.
 That conference broke up amid the wreckage of the 5-5-3 limitation on the ratio of British, U. $. and Japanese shipbuilding wreck age Yamamoto helped to create,
 Before that he had had an oppor- tunity to study America during resi- dence as Washington naval attache shortly after World War I and again from 1925 to 1927. But as late as 1888 he promised, as Japanese navy vice minister, that Japan Twill not en- tVa n htttIi,,n pap0O and NlIa never contemplated building n navy for the purpose of crossing the ocean to engage in conflict"
 He became commander in chief of the combined Japanese fleet and of the JapaneSe nayy's first fleet on Aug. 30, 1889. At that time dispatch es from Tokyo noted that he was credited with doing most of the work in building Up the count y'S air arm.
 Thus he took part in all of the planning that went into Japan's war strategy and was the chief of the navy that drove to such far-nung outposts as New Guinea and Timor in the southwest Pacific to Attu in the Aleutians.
 Yamamoto was born April 4. 1884 at Nagoka City, the sixth son of Teikichi Takano. He was graduated from the Japanese military academy at 20, taking part in the Russo-Jap- anese war the next year and being wounded at the battle of Toushima on May 26, 1905.
 His rise in the Japanese navy af- ter 1920 was rapid. Part of his work was along technical lines in ships and aircraft. Tn 1886 he became vice minister of the navy and chief of aviation in May 1888.
 A Tokyo broadcast recorded by the EGG on last April T said he was great poker player" and talked about how he had "called the bluff" of Great Britain and the United States. The date of that broadcast gave rise to speculation that he was killed some time after that.
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 Washington, May 21 - (UP)- President Roosevelt was informed at his press conference today about the death of Admiral Isoroku Ya- moto, the Japanese naval leader who had promised to write the final terms of American surrender in the White House.
 Mir. Roosevelt's comment: