Admiral Chester Nimitz made the call to target him. As Donald A. Davis notes in his book Lightning Strike, the fact that Yamamoto, who carried out the Pearl Harbor attack, was responsible for the ...

As U.S. forces closed in, Japanese commanders scrambled to protect their most valuable leader—Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto ... of events that led to Yamamoto’s death—and how one miscalculated ...

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) was the Japanese Naval commander who was given the order to attack Pearl Harbour, an order he was duty bound to obey which went against his own personal beliefs.