“In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.”

This was the reaction of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy when he received orders in November 1941 to attack the US naval base at Pearl Harbor. 

For the next five months and 27 days, he kept his word as the Japanese fleet swept across the Pacific. The admiral’s ultimate goal was to provoke a fleet action with the US Navy while the Combined Fleet still had technological and material superiority, and he succeeded.

 In June 1942, the two fleets met off Midway Island in one of the most decisive battles of the Pacific War.

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