The other point in the article that I think is so important is that we knew the Japanese were committed no to Midway.
Their communications security was bad enough, and our code breakers were good enough, that we knew they were coming and we could prepare for them.
That’s why Hillary Clinton’s awful behavior with communications security infuriates me.
The Japanese would desperately liked to have never sent that signal about the water plant at Midway. It cost them four carriers and many men.
Probably the war.
And she just acts like what she did was nothing.
crypto and Midway
http://usnhistory.navylive.dodlive.mil/navy-cryptology-and-the-battle-of-midway-our-finest-hour/