Admiral Yamamoto's Quote in the MIDWAY Movie and its Historical Accuracy - #shorts #short

[anthonyxavier]

The guy went to Harvard and spoke fluent English. Not only was he against going to war with the U.S., he was also against going to war with China and joining with the Axis. Also, he was not like the idea of building the battleship Yamato and Musashi which was obsolete already and waste of resources. He was a very smart guy. If only people actually took his advice.

[Cooldogguy]

Even as an American, I can acknowledge Yamamoto as a great admiral and great man.

[GlamorousTitanic]

When Yamamoto was a young cadet in the Japanese navy, he had taken a posting as a naval attaché in the US and saw America’s potential industrial might first hand. These experiences stayed with him after his return to Japan and subsequent promotion though the ranks; as a result, he had severe reservations about how far Japan could go before the US stepped in and brought its overwhelming forces to bear against them.
And he turned out to be right.

[CrimsonAlchemist]

The Politicians should have listened to Admiral Yamamoto he admired the US

[fearlesspotato]

One thing to remember is that Yamamoto believed that the pearl harbor offensive was going to occur after an ultimatum once the Americans refused they would destroy the American fleet so that in the eyes of the Americans this would be a war caused by corrupt Washington politicians and thus after crude battles in the Pacific the US population would ask for peace since the cost of their own corruption would be too much.

But without the ultimatum or the war declaration Americans saw this for how it was, a predatory nation trying to humiliate them.

The Japanese government decided not to send the ultimatum because unlike Yamamoto they did believed the Americans were weak and even with "great resolve" they would still be defeated and crushed.

[_Dk]

Met a Pearl Harbor survivor when I lived on Oahu in the 90’s, very humble sailor. He always had a tear in his eye if you asked him about it.

[onyxdragon]

The quote itself came to be after a director (from either Tora Tora Tora or Pearl Harbor, can't recall) claimed that he had read it from Yamamoto's personal diary, but the director always failed to show said diary and claims that it was lost sometime during the movie production.
Though another quote atributed to Yamamoto that is more legit is "It's impossible to invade the US. There will be a gun hidden behind every blade of grass", or something along those lines

[joerhodes]

Japan telling Russia not to start a war with the U.S. : "trust us, we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two".

[areafurrynone]

The craziest “fuck around and find out” in military history

[tyfrench-zjsq]

Yamamoto nor his staff didn't want war with the US it was Tojo the supreme commander of the Japanese army who did and he convinced the Emperor to do so .

[CS-znpp]

Actually, one of the Japanese naval officers involved in the planning of the attack was a consultant on "Tora Tora Tora" was the source for the quote.
He claimed to have been in the room when Yamamoto said it.

[charlessaint]

The scene in 'Midway', where crewmen of the Arizona crawl along a line to escape the inferno to the repair ship, USS Vestal, did happen!


Six Arizona crewmen became trapped on the portside gun director, near the bridge, when she exploded. Unable to find an escape because of the flames and smoke, they spotted a crewman on the deck of the USS Vestal moored alongside. They hailed him, and Vestal crewman threw them a heaving line. As they did so, a Vestal officer ordered the line be cut so they can get clear of the Arizona. The rating refused, saying doing so would doom the men trying to cross over. One by one Arizona survived made it over.
Five of the men that made it had burns covering most of their bodies. They are shipped back to the States for medical care, sadly, one died enroute on 24 December 1941.

That Vestal crewman was later identified as Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Joseph George. A humble man who only once mentioned what he did to his daughter. George died in 1996 without proper recognition. When his identity was confirmed, two of the men that George saved that day, Donald Stratton and Lauren Bruner, personally went to Washington D.C. and petitioned Congress to redress this.

On 7 December 2017, the deputy commander of the US Pacific Fleet, Rear Admiral Matthew Carter, personally bestowed the Bronze Star Medal with V device to George’s daughter, Joe Ann Taylor.

Because of George’s refusal to obey orders, Lauren Bruner was allowed to live until September 2019, at the age of 98. Donald Stratton followed in February 2020, at the age of 97.

As of writing this, only one crewmember of the Arizona’s destruction is alive today. His name is Lou Conter. After Pearl Harbor, Conter became a pilot with VT-11 serving in the Pacific and rescuing people. He is 101 and I had the honor of meeting him, Stratton, and other Pearl Harbor survivors for the 76th anniversary of the attack in 2016. These men were kind enough to even sign one of my books. Now at least part of their memory is preserved.

[Guazabara]

If it happened today the Japanese would just have declared war in a simple tweet.

[MaxwellAerialPhotography]

While he sometimes incorrectly portrayed to have been pro American or anti war, what is true is that Yamamoto probably had the best understanding of American culture and politics of anyone in the IJN due to his time studying and working in the US.

[Al-kdhv]

I believe he also said it was a terrible idea because the Americans would not be willing to negotiate and would never accept anything other than an unconditional surrender because of how ruthless attacking Pearl Harbor was.

[ScrotalSands]

It doesn't just go against American values of fairness, it's entirely unbecoming of Japanese military culture. In the days where duels were still a thing, attacking without properly making your opponent aware of what is happening beforehand was incredibly frowned upon and considered something that basically only a degenerate criminal would do.

[robertgross]

Yamamoto had been the naval attache at the Japanese embassy in Washington, was fluent in English, and had studied at Harvard.

[lalremruatiruati]

Well he is not a villian . He is just a man who serve his country

[gnperdue]

Yamamoto said a lot of stuff along those lines before and after Pearl Harbor that may be clearly attributed to him though. He understood very clearly Japan could not win a long war against the US - Japan just didn’t have the resources and industrial base to do it.

Still, Midway was an absolutely wild battle that could have easily gone the other way.

[Dan_Arsino]

*Japan rekts Pearl Harbor.
Admiral Yamamoto: We f*cked up.
😂😂😂😂😂