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Joe Rochefort's war : the odyssey of the codebreaker who outwitted Yamamoto at Midway /

This is the first biography of Capt. Joe Rochefort, the Officer in Charge of Station Hypo the U.S. Navy's decrypt unit at Pearl Harbor and his key role in breaking the Imperial Japanese Navy's main code before the Battle of Midway. It brings together the disparate threads of Rochefort'...

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Main Author: Carlson, Elliot, 1936-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
Rochefort, Joe, > 1900-1976.
United States. > Navy > Officers > Biography.
Midway, Battle of, 1942.
Cryptographers > United States > Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Cryptography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Electronic intelligence.
World War, 1939-1945 > Military intelligence > United States.
World War, 1939-1945 > Naval operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945 > Naval operations, Japanese.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:1612510736
9781612510736
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the riddle of Joe Rochefort
  • Trolley to San Pedro
  • Mustang
  • Odyssey of a codebreaker
  • Fleet gadfly, Tokyo whiz
  • The Admiral's confidant
  • Assignment Pearl Harbor
  • A most unusual place
  • Rochefort's world
  • Shadowing Yamamoto
  • Encounter with Kimmel
  • Ill wind
  • Comedy of errors
  • Air raid Pearl Harbor!
  • The long wait for JN-25(b)
  • Pearl Harbor aftermath
  • Strike up the band
  • Koryaku Butai
  • Not a very glorious incident
  • The dungeon comes alive
  • A silk purse out of a sow's ear
  • King comes calling
  • Something is brewing
  • Five days in May
  • Rochefort's war
  • Affirm fox is confirmed here
  • Nimitz comes around
  • Our man in Tokyo
  • By any and all means
  • Remedial action
  • Drydocked
  • Epilogue : the medal.

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