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Title: Yamamoto quote
Post by: Doberman on January 20, 2002, 07:03:56 PM

Is the "We have awakened a sleeping tiger" quote factual or something made up for Hollywood?

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Title: Yamamoto quote
Post by: Kratzer on January 20, 2002, 07:17:09 PM

Factual.

"I fear all we have done is awake a sleeping giant/tiger/etc., and fill him with terrible resolve."

Title: Yamamoto quote
Post by: SirLoin on January 20, 2002, 08:17:38 PM

Interseting fact was Yamamoto was the only Axis leader assasinated during WW2.

Title: Yamamoto quote
Post by: Doberman on January 20, 2002, 09:00:33 PM

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Originally posted by Kratzer
Factual.

"I fear all we have done is awake a sleeping giant/tiger/etc., and fill him with terrible resolve."

I'm looking for an actual reference as to when & where this was said.  I've been unable to find any other than Tora, Tora, Tora.

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Title: Yamamoto quote
Post by: Karnak on January 20, 2002, 09:29:27 PM

Yamamoto was also the only guy in the Japanese high command that knew Japan could not win.  He argued against it, but they didn't listen to him.

Title: The quotes...
Post by: Kieran on January 20, 2002, 10:23:51 PM

The first quote (paraphrase, actually) comes from his discussion with the Japanese leaders prior to the decision to go to war with America:

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If you say it is to be war, I can promise you for a period of six months I will run wild in the Pacific, and will give you an uninterrupted string of victories. If the war lasts beyond that I have no hope of victory whatsoever".

The second quote occurred after news of the successful Pearl Harbor attack reached him. He reportedly recorded the words in his personal journal.

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I fear all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant, and fill him with a terrible resolve.

I don't know if Yamamoto realized at this point the declaration of war was delivered after the attack or not, but both quotes taken in the context of history are chillingly accurate nonetheless.

Title: Yamamoto quote
Post by: indian on January 20, 2002, 11:51:30 PM

Guess what I think the giant like to sleep. It wakes up grumpier everytime time it is awaken. When will the rest of the world learn the United States has not shown its best hand yet.

By the way didnt Yamamoto go to school here in the U.S.

Title: Yamamoto quote
Post by: SirLoin on January 21, 2002, 04:02:22 AM

Yamamoto attended Harvard in 1919.He studied English in a course called "English E" and also took a "Petroleun Resources" course.

Title: Yamamoto quote
Post by: Vladd on January 21, 2002, 08:08:07 AM

Yamamoto also spoke of Japan 'dictating peace in the White House,' but meant it in an ironic sense - the idea was so obviously beyond Japan's capabilties only a fool would have recommended war on America if that's what victory demanded.

Vladd

Title: Yamamoto quote
Post by: easymo on January 21, 2002, 12:01:52 PM

I find it interesting that we feared him so much that we dispatched sixteen P38's to find and kill him.

Title: Yamamoto quote
Post by: Kieran on January 21, 2002, 01:23:35 PM

'Twas a big ocean, and we didn't want to make any mistakes. :)