[infowarrior]

As you saw from my post, my facts were already marshaled. (additional fact, I saw a History Channel segment on the Yamamoto assassination just last night. This provided me with the data of the name WE used for the compromised Japanese Imperial Navy code, that being JN-25).

The IJN had updated that same code circa early 1943, suspecting we may have cracked a portion of it, after their debacle at Midway. Fortune, or if you will, Divine Providence intervened when a New Zealand destroyer attacked and destroyed a Japanese submarine in the waters near Guadalcanal (by ramming it, no less!) Part of the debris that surfaced was a copy of the updated cyphers for the JN-25 code which had been previously compromised. The Allies, after this stroke of fortune, had it all....

the infowarrior

[danielmryan]

Interesting. I have to admit that this isn't one of the areas in which I can claim to be knowledgable.

By the way: if you guys want to dig through some alternate interpretations of Canadian history, feel free. Lord know us Canucks have weighed in on your events.

[GATOR NAVY]

And is it fate I'm career Navy? My birthday is Dec 7, 1961. Twenty years to the day...