{"id":30244,"date":"2012-06-04T09:34:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T13:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30244"},"modified":"2012-06-04T09:34:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T13:34:35","slug":"70th-anniversary-of-midway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30244","title":{"rendered":"70th Anniversary of Midway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Very interesting article in the Washington Times<\/a> today talking about the role of an intelligence cell on the Battle of Midway:<\/p>\n

It was during the spring of 1942 that the tide of the Pacific War\u00a0 began to shift \u2014 not in a battle at sea, it turned out, but in the\u00a0 depths of “the dungeon.”<\/p>\n

That was the nickname for the cramped basement space in the Pearl Harbor\u00a0 Naval Shipyard, conceived as a storage room before being converted to\u00a0 an office for Capt. Joseph Rochefort’s “Station Hypo” code-breaking team\u00a0 during World War II.<\/p>\n

Rendered cold and damp by the installation of an overzealous air\u00a0 conditioner, the dungeon, as its moniker would suggest, didn’t offer the\u00a0 most luxurious of working environments. While the shadow of Japan’s\u00a0 control over the Pacific grew, the American code-breakers worked day and\u00a0 night in their dark, dank accommodations, desperately hoping to find an\u00a0 advantage against a force of naval precision unlike any they had seen\u00a0 before.<\/p>\n

And that’s exactly what they did. Late that April, they cracked the\u00a0 empire’s naval code. On June 4, 1942, a Japanese fleet featuring four\u00a0 aircraft carriers set its sights on Midway, a small coral outpost used\u00a0 by U.S. forces in Hawaii. When they arrived, the forewarned Americans\u00a0 were ready.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You should go read the whole thing as it is incredibly interesting.\u00a0 I did find a video that talks a little about the role of the INTEL guys:<\/p>\n

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