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[World War II Japanese Admiral Isoroku] Yamamoto*, although he never washed his own underwear, would not let the orderlies wash it either, and jettisoned his used loincloths through the porthole every day.
--Hiroyuki Agawa in The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial navy, tr. by John Bester
* The man who planned Pearl Harbor, although he thought it was a mistake going to war against the United States, where he had lived.
His name means Mountain 56.
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