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- From: rkim@opus.uucp (Richard H.S. Kim)
- Subject: Re: WWII Feature - "Silent Srevice"
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- Organization: Cal State Univ. Los Angeles (CS Dept.)
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:36:49 GMT
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- From rkim@opus.uucp (Richard H.S. Kim)
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- A very important element that was left out was the superiority of the
- U.S. codebreakers. Their success in breaking the Japanese military codes
- enabled them to work on other codes, the most interesting was the maru
- codes, or "S" codes.
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- These codes were the ones used by Japanese merchant ships to transmit
- info back to Tokyo, in hindsight, a bad move. As the U.S. easily broke
- these codes, they were able to relay this information to the subs.
- Many of the American subs simply waited at the coordinates given, and
- nailed the ships as they came. Some of the sub commanders even complained
- when the Japanese were late!
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- Tojo admitted that sub warfare took a devastating toll on Japan.
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- This was in a Cryptoanalysis history book, of course. I believe it was
- the Codebreakers.
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- Later,
- Rich K.
- email/inet> rkim@opus.calstatela.edu
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