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To: Captain Peter Blood

It’s idiotic to think that the US was ‘surprised’ when the jap code was already broken in 1940, earlier than the Enigma machine.


19 posted on 05/09/2021 4:07:08 PM PDT by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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To: max americana

There were two codes, the Naval code and the Diplomatic code, AKA the Purple Code. The purple code was brown to a degree, the naval code not.

I have read a a few books on this and while there was a heightened level, and there were some terrible mistakes, one being Admiral Richmond Turner and his responsibility in this fiasco.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_K._Turner

The whereabouts of the Japanese Fleet was unknown and at one point the thinking was they would attack the Aleutians, not Pearl Harbor.

All in all a very confusing period.


20 posted on 05/09/2021 4:22:27 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;page)
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