Against all odds

What Wikipedia Can’t Tell You

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Japanese naval commanders praised Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the supreme Naval commander for the Japanese Empire, on planning the attack which severely damaged American naval forces. It is purported that Admiral Yamamoto said, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” It is furt...

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