June 5, 1942(1942-06-05) (aged 49) Pacific Ocean (near Midway Island)
Allegiance
Empire of Japan
Service/branch
Imperial Japanese Navy
Years of service
1912–1942
Rank
Vice Admiral (posthumous)
Commands held
Isuzu, Ise, 1st Combined Air Group, 2nd Carrier Division
Battles/wars
World War I
World War II
Pacific War
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Battle of Wake Island
Indian Ocean Raid
Battle of Midway †
Awards
Order of the Rising Sun (4th class)
Order of the Sacred Treasure (2nd class) [1]
Order of the Golden Kite (1st class)
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.
TamonYamaguchi (山口 多聞, YamaguchiTamon, 17 August 1892 – 5 June 1942) was a rear admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy who served during the Second Sino-Japanese...
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carrier was not sighted. Nagumo was now in a quandary. Rear Admiral TamonYamaguchi, leading Carrier Division 2 (Hiryū and Sōryū), recommended that Nagumo...
Butai consisted of six aircraft carriers (commanded by Chūichi Nagumo, TamonYamaguchi and Chūichi Hara) with 414 airplanes, two battleships, three cruisers...
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Eugène Lacomblé also died in the sinking. June 5, 1942: Rear Admiral TamonYamaguchi, on board the aircraft carrier Hiryū, insisted on staying with the...
Okinawa and raids on Japanese home islands Admiral Chūichi Nagumo, TamonYamaguchi, and Jisaburō Ozawa According to naval historians Jonathan Parshall...
Senkichi Taniguchi (谷口 千吉) Storm Over the Pacific (ハワイ·ミッドウェイ大海空戦 太平洋の嵐) TamonYamaguchi (山口多聞) Shūe Matsubayashi (松林 宗恵) Man Against Man (男対男) Kaji (梶) Senkichi...
separated from them and is currently in the company of Naoshi Kanno and TamonYamaguchi. Butch Cassidy (ブッチ・キャシディ, Butchi Kyashidi) Voiced by: Daisuke Ono...
strategy at the Battle of Tsushima / In the prepschool age Vice Admiral YamaguchiTamon (1892 – June 4, 1942), commander of the aircraft carrier Hiryū at the...
director 2016 Yuri on Ice Hisashi Morooka ADR director 2016 Drifters TamonYamaguchi 2016 Brothers Conflict Juli 2016 Rage of Bahamut: Genesis ADR director...
Million Dollar Man (TV Series) as Kuroda 1976 Midway as Rear Admiral TamonYamaguchi 1976 Futureworld as Mr. Takaguchi 1980 The Private Eyes as Mr. Uwatsum...
diplomatic negotiations in Washington fail, the task force commander, Adm. TamonYamaguchi (Toshiro Mifune) receives orders to attack Pearl Harbor. On December...
Kunitomo Tokyo Ghoul (2014) – Yukinori Shinohara Drifters (2016) – TamonYamaguchi Angolmois: Record of Mongol Invasion (2018) – Ōkura Yorisue The Rising...
laureate (d. 1987) Walther Nehring, German general (d. 1983) August 17 – TamonYamaguchi, Japanese admiral (d. 1942) August 25 – Gabriel Guérin, French World...
Global Information
Empire of Japan
Imperial Japanese Navy
Vice Admiral (posthumous)