[ARC5] How the U.S. Cracked Japan's 'Purple Encryption"

[Mark K3MSB]

I doubt that Ken.   Nagumo’s air staff were pleading with him to launch
another strike to go after the fuel dumps and maintenance facilities.
Nagumo didn’t.  If he had, the Pacific War would have been much different
and shorter.    Remember, Yamamoto wasn’t really thrilled with Nagumo being
in charge of the attack force.   I forget the reason Yamamoto picked him,
but he wasn’t at the top of the list.    I need to look that up tonight……

73 Mark K3MSB

On Dec 6, 2016 3:26 PM, "Kenneth G. Gordon" <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>
wrote:


I remember reading some time ago that during an interview by our military
with the
Japanese commanders after the war that when this was brought to their
attention, their
mouths dropped open and they appeared absolutely dumb-founded.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/arc5/attachments/20161206/a56d0cdf/attachment.html>