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General Minoru Genda (源田 実, Genda Minoru, 16 August 1904 – 15 August 1989) was a Imperial Japanese Navy flight officer, JASDF general and politician. He is best known for helping to plan the attack on Pearl Harbor. After the war he became the third Chief of Staff of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force.
Genda Minoru was a Japanese naval officer and air strategist who was chosen by Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku to draft the plan for the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor (in Oahu Island, Hawaii, U.S.), which crippled the American Pacific Fleet and precipitated the entry of the United States into World War.
On 3 March 1969, the U.S. Naval Institute made history (and generated no small degree of controversy) when it hosted a talk by retired Japanese General Minoru Genda, a “mastermind of the Pearl Harbor attack,” at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Jul 11, 2018 · Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is credited as the mastermind behind the attack on Pearl Harbor, but he was far from the only one. Among the other officials who had a hand in planning the attack was Minoru Genda, then a captain in the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Minoru Genda, “Analysis no. 2 of the Pearl Corps operational aircraft with eighty-eight under repair, after the attack eighty-seven were operational, seventy-nine repairable, and sixty-five destroyed, for a net loss of fifty-six operational aircraft.
Aug 17, 1989 · General Minoru Genda, who planned the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, died of heart disease in a Tokyo hospital Tuesday on the 44th anniversary of the end of the World War II.
Commander Minoru Genda was named air officer in charge of the aerial assault. His friend, Lt. Cmdr. Mitsuo Fuchida, was appointed to command the First Air Fleet and would lead the initial wave to the target.
Minoru Genda, at the time a retired Japanese general, also had served in the Imperial Japanese Navy and helped plan the attack on Pearl Harbor. He delivered his own bombshells as part of the U.S. Naval Institute’s “distinguished visitor” program in 1969.
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Aug 15, 1989 · TOKYO -- Former Imperial Navy pilot Minoru Genda, who helped plan the attack on Pearl Harbor that triggered the United States' entry into World War II, died Tuesday -- the 44th anniversary of...
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Aug 15, 1989 · TOKYO -- Former Imperial Navy pilot Minoru Genda, who joined in planning the Pearl Harbor attack that triggered the Pacific War in 1941, died Tuesday -- the 43rd anniversary of Japan's defeat...
