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To: Retain Mike

Edwin T. Layton’s biography ‘And I Was There’ is a must read for background info on Pearl Harbor and Midway. In addition to intelligence information, Layton lays out the Naval bureaucratic infighting that got Joe Rochefort transferred to a dry dock command on the West Coast after his brilliant work predicting the Japanese attack on Midway (the worst sin is being right in the eyes of bureaucrats). Layton’s book shook things up to the extent that Rochefort finally got the official recognition he deserved, albeit in the 1980s.


8 posted on 06/04/2015 9:55:09 AM PDT by Stevenc131
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Yep, I've read his book and it on my shelf. I wasn't paying attention, so now I have two copies of Joe Rochefort’s War by Elliot Carlson
18 posted on 06/04/2015 5:06:14 PM PDT by Retain Mike
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