...Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's having said about i February 1941: "If we have war with the United States we will have no hope of winning unless the US Fleet in Hawaiian waters can be destroyed." '" From the recollections of Capt. Sadatoshi Tomioka, chief of the Japanese Naval General Staff's Operations...

...could be done. The Japanese Imperial Navy concluded, in the words of Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku, that "We will have no hope of winning unless the US fleet in Hawaiian waters can be destroyed." Yamamoto secretly began to plan the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The governments of the US and...

...fleet. Without oil from the United States, our ships and planes are crippled. We need to take action. If we are to have war with America, we will have no...the US Fleet in Hawaiian waters can be destroyed. In November 1941, the Japanese sent 32 ships carrying 350 planes toward Hawaii and waited for word...