Chūichi Nagumo
Japanese admiral · Japan · Historical Figures · Lived 1887 to 1944 · aged 57
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Something wrong?He commanded the carrier strike force that hit Pearl Harbor, then watched that same fleet shatter at Midway six months later - the hinge battle that broke Japan's naval dominance in the Pacific.
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, Mr. Chief of Staff [Ryunosuke Kusaka], what do you think? I feel that I've undertaken a heavy responsibility. If I had only been more firm and refused.
I have lived in the United States and I know the might of their industrial complex. The United States is a sleeping giant and I am afraid that our attack has awakened it.
The success of our surprise attack on Pearl Harbor will prove to be the Waterloo of the war to follow.
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Chūichi Nagumo was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy who led the Kido Butai, Japan's main carrier battle group, through the opening blows of the Pacific War. He struck Pearl Harbor in December 1941, then carried the offensive to Darwin and across the Indian Ocean in the months that followed. At Midway in June 1942, his strike force met a crushing defeat that turned the tide of the war. Reassigned during the Guadalcanal campaign and later posted to the home islands, he was sent to a naval command in the Mariana Islands in 1944. He died by suicide during the Battle of Saipan on 6 July that year.
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