William H. Honan
Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto smashed the American fleet at Pearl Harbor on Dec,,, yet the man who first conceived of the Pacific war Japans surprise attack, the seizure of the Philippines amp Guam, amp the American islandhopping campaign was a British naval correspondent, Hector C.
Bywater. He wrote a series of brilliant books amp articles in thes amps that prophetically outlined naval strategies that would read like a blueprint for the Pacific Theater during World War II.
Bywaters ideas created an uproar amp then were quickly forgotten, But Yamamoto adopted Bywaters ideas as his own, Photos. .