World Battlefronts: CASUALTIES: Thank You, Mr. Yamamoto

The Jap who looked forward to dictating peace to the U.S. in the White House is dead. Last week, in Tokyo's Navy Club, the ashes of Isoroku Yamamoto, who had been Naval Commander in Chief of Japan, lay in state. Tokyo reported that the Admiral had been killed, "in combat with the enemy," during April.

At an emergency meeting of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association this resolution was adopted: "We, the 100,000,000 people of Japan, have simultaneously expressed our deepest condolence and we are burning with a greater spirit to fight against our enemy, America and Britain. Let us march...

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