Who was Isoroku Yamamoto?
showed last 75 words of 908 total loss of its best admiral. Yamamoto’s successor said “We had only one Yamamoto and no one can replace him”. Admiral Yamamoto received the highest state honors in his funeral. He was also posthumously promoted to the highest rank of Fleet Admiral, and Germany, Japan’s ally, honored him too as the only foreigner awarded the Knights Cross with oak leaves and swords, one of its highest medals, awarded to Germany’s most outstanding aces and military leaders.