![](https://www.historynet.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Yamamoto-last-960_640.jpg)
In a photo taken only a week before his death, Yamamoto, inspects Japanese pilots at Rabaul, New Britain. (National Archives)
In a photo taken only a week before his death, Yamamoto, inspects Japanese pilots at Rabaul, New Britain. (National Archives)