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  1. WI Yamamoto Survives

    Yamamoto's physical location is really of little importance. The key is what orders he gave, or equally damning, failed to give. Had Yamamoto ordered that the Conventions were to be followed, they would have been. The executions were not by some CPO acting on his own, or by a junior officer...
  2. WI Yamamoto Survives

    There is also the Nuremberg charge "Waging a war of aggression". As the chief planner of a sneak attack that took place while peace discussions were on-going that bit of (admittedly questionable) international law covers him quite nicely. The Makin Raiders were killed by order of the naval...
  3. WI Yamamoto Survives

    You are correct that no one would, at the time, have blamed Yamamoto for any of the individual failures, eventually the disaster that befell Combined Fleet would have to be considered to be at least partly the fault of the Fleet Commander. Every time the Strike Force launched a CAP aircraft...
  4. WI Yamamoto Survives

    I couldn't disagree more. Yamamoto, as was his habit, over designed what was supposed to be a simple ambush, a mission designed to destroy the USN carrier force, mainly to prevent any further attacks against the Home Islands, morphed into a impossibly complex operation that relied on the enemy...
  5. WI Yamamoto Survives

    Not everyone died on impact. In addition to Ensign Gay (VT-8) who was later rescued there were other survivors of the initial shoot downs. Some were retrieved by Japanese warships. Shattered Sword lists these three men by name: Ensign Wesley Osmus (VT-3) pulled from water, interrogated and...
  6. WI Yamamoto Survives

    How about failure to exercise proper command responsibility in the prevention of war crimes? Plenty of Axis leaders danced Danny Deaver on that one. I can think of three cases, just at Midway, and without even checking a single resource when IJN officers (under Yamamoto's operational command)...
  7. WI Yamamoto Survives

    He would not have survived. He would have been placed in charge of the defenses of Iwo Jima or Okinawa (or at least of the naval forces there), much like Nagumo was put in charge of Saipan.
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