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In this Japanese name, the family name is Yamaguchi.

Tamon Yamaguchi (山口多聞, Yamaguchi Tamon^?, 17 August 1892 – 4 June 1942) was a Japanese admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II and an alumnus of Princeton University (1921–1923).

Biography[]

Born in Koishikawa Tokyo, Yamaguchi graduated from the 40th class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1912, ranked second out of 144 cadets. As a midshipman, he served on the cruiserSoya and battleshipSettsu. After his commissioning as an ensign, he was assigned to the cruiser Chikuma and battleship Aki.

Yamaguchi attended naval artillery and torpedo school in 1915–1916, and was then assigned to the destroyerKashi.

By 1918, Yamaguchi had been promoted to lieutenant and was assigned to a navigation unit with the naval squadron escorting Imperial German Navysubmarines received by the Japanese government as part of reparation payments from Germany at the end of World War I. He then traveled to the United States and attended Princeton University from 1921-1923. On his return to Japan th

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Tamon Yamaguchi

Imperial Japanese Navy admiral

Tamon Yamaguchi (山口多聞, Yamaguchi Tamon, 17 August 1892 – 5 June 1942) was a rear admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy who served during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and in the Pacific War during World War II. Yamaguchi′s carrier force was part of the attack on Pearl Harbor. He subsequently participated in the Battle of Midway, where he was killed in action, choosing to go down with the aircraft carrier Hiryū when she was scuttled after being crippled by aircraft from USS Enterprise and USS Yorktown.

Life

Early career

Yamaguchi was born in Koishikawa, Tokyo, and was the third son of a former samurai retainer of Matsue Domain. His given name "Tamon" was the childhood name of the medieval hero Kusunoki Masashige. He attended the Kaisei Academy and was accepted into the 40th class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy, which he graduated in 1912, ranked 21st out of 144 cadets. His classmates included Takijirō Ōnishi and Matome Ugaki. As an ensign, he served on the cruiserChikuma an

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Jonathan Parshall:

Perhaps Japan's most gifted carrier admiral, Yamaguchi was astute, aggressive, and ambitious. Unfortunately for Japan's war effort, he was also heavily steeped in the Bushido Code, which meant that he was pretty much obligated to do away with himself after having lost his carrier Hiryu during the closing stages of the Battle of Midway. So it goes.

C. Peter Chen:

Near the end of the Battle of Midway, he told pilot Tomonaga, who was about to go on an attack in which he did not expect to return, 'I will gladly follow you'. That summed up his deep belief in that he must succeed, or would die trying. Instead of taking the chance to escape with Hiryu, thus potentially saving a fleet carrier to fight another day, he steered Hiryu into more dangerous waters for a final attack that was nearly impossible to win. Before Midway, he was considered capable, brave, and a possible successor to Yamamoto; after this demonstration of stubborness, it showed that he might not had been a good choice as Yamamoto's successor, after all.

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