Posted on 12/07/2016 3:07:48 PM PST by nickcarraway
George Elliott was one of two servicemen manning a radar station on Oahu the morning of Dec. 7, 1941. When he reported a huge sighting on his radar screen, he was ignored.
At 2 a.m. on April 1, 2001, I was sitting at my computer in my Laguna Beach condo working on a website I’ve long since forgotten when an email popped up with nothing in the subject line.
“Do you know who I am?”
“Another April Fool’s joke,” I thought to myself as I moved my cursor up to click the Delete button. Then I glanced down and noticed the sender: George E. Elliott Jr.
I stopped.
Being a devotee of World War II history, I knew exactly who he was. On the early morning of Dec. 7, 1941, George Elliott and Joseph Lockard were manning a radar unit at Kahuku Point on the mountainous north coast of Oahu in Hawaii when they spotted the first wave of Japanese planes flying in to attack Pearl Harbor.
“Why are you asking me this?” I replied.
“I wrote to PearlHarbor.com and they ignored me, but I see that you are the contact for Pearl-Harbor.com.”
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JN-25 was “10% Penetrated” whatever that means. The IJN changed the cipher in November 1941 AND utilized couriers & radio silence to minimize the traffic using the new JN-25B.
There simply was nothing to go on specific to Pearl Harbor.
Simon Singh
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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ISBN-13: 978-0385495325, ISBN-10: 0385495323
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