[Mr. Silverback]

You're close on the Wake story. They did it for Midway, not Wake, because they knew for sure that they had traffic indicating a major operation against "AF." So, they had every station in the Pacific that the Japanese might strike send out some fake detail (different for each station) in the clear as part of housekeeping traffic. They soon intercepted this message: "AF is short on fresh water." This allowed them to position Yorktown, Enterprise and Hornet to the northeast of Midway and dry gulch Nagumo's carriers.

[xrmusn]

Thanks, I was ‘shooting from the hip’ there and didn’t even attempt a memory check, much less a ‘fact check’.....