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To: VOA

The battle of Leyte Gulf where Bull Halsey took off after a decoy Jap fleet leaving Taffy 3 allllllll alone. Remember Admiral Nimitz's message to Halsey ("Turkey trots to water. Where is repeat where is Task Force 34 The world wonders") !!!


9 posted on 01/16/2007 5:48:40 PM PST by Obie Wan
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To: Obie Wan
Remember Admiral Nimitz's message to Halsey ("Turkey trots to water. Where is repeat where is Task Force 34 The world wonders") !!!

If I recall from "Tin Can Sailors", the turkey phrase and the world wonders phrase were decoys around the real message "where is task force 34".

Ideally, the prefix and suffix phrases, when coded, were meant to confuse those enemies trying to decipher

In reality, a decoder left it in the message given to Halsey by mistake. And Halsey took it is biting sarcasm from Nimitz.

14 posted on 01/16/2007 6:05:37 PM PST by llevrok
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