U.S. Navy codebreakers, linguists, and intelligence officers against Japan, 1910-1941 : a biographical dictionary / Captain Steven E. Maffeo, U.S. Naval Reserve, Retired.
This unique reference presents 59 biographies of people who were key to the sea services being reasonably prepared to fight the Japanese Empire when the Second World War broke out, and whose advanced work proved crucial. These intelligence pioneers invented techniques, procedures, and equipment from...
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| 264 | 1 | |a Lanham, Maryland : |b Rowman and Littlefield, |c [2016] | |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-501) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Acronyms and Abbreviations; Foreword; Author's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Illustrations; The Scanners. Radio Direction Finders and Radio Traffic Analysts; The Book Breakers. Cryptographers, Cryptanalysts, and Codebreakers; The Blue Sky Merchants. Linguists, Translators, and Intelligence Officers; The "Hybrids". Multiskilled and Multiproficient; Appendix A. What's a Code, and What's a Cipher?; Appendix B. Chronology of Select Highlights, U.S. Navy Radio Intelligence, Pacific Area of Operations 1916-1941; Appendix C. Directors of U.S. Naval Intelligence, 1909-1942. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Appendix D. Directors of U.S. Naval Communications 1912-1942Appendix E.U.S. Naval Attachés in Tokyo, 1914-1941; Appendix F.U.S. Navy, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Section "OP-20-G" and Its Antecedents; Appendix G. Officers in Charge, Office of Naval Communications, Code and Signal Section, "Research Desk" (OP-20-GX); Appendix H. Officers in Charge, Office of Naval Communications, Code and Signal Section, Translation Section (OP-20-GZ); Appendix I. Growth of U.S. Navy Radio Intelligence; Appendix J.U.S. Naval Radio Intelligence, Primarily Focused upon Japan, as of December 1941. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Appendix K. Station HYPO, Territory of HawaiiAppendix L.U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps Japanese Language/Culture Officers Immersed in Japan, 1910-1941; Appendix M. The "On-the-Roof Gang"; Appendix N. Operation VENGEANCE; Suggested Reading; Glossary; Index; About the Author. | |
| 520 | |a This unique reference presents 59 biographies of people who were key to the sea services being reasonably prepared to fight the Japanese Empire when the Second World War broke out, and whose advanced work proved crucial. These intelligence pioneers invented techniques, procedures, and equipment from scratch, not only allowing the United States to hold its own in the Pacific despite the loss of most of its Fleet at Pearl Harbor, but also laying the foundation of today's intelligence methods and agencies. | ||
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