From: Terry W. Colvin (fortean1@mindspring.com)
Date: Thu Dec 05 2002 - 23:19:52 MST
Dehede011@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 12/5/2002 6:06:19 PM Central Standard Time,
> ABlainey@aol.com writes: the same way Yamamoto got strung up for atrocities
> committed by his subordinates in the Philippines about which all agreed he
> had no knowledge.
>
> Aren't you talking about someone else? As I recall we intercepted,
> via radio, and de-coded Yamamoto's itinerary. We then sent a flight of P-38s
> to intercept him as he flew into one destination on his route. We shot down
> his airplane and killed him.
> Yamamoto was their best Naval officer and the mastermind of Pearl
> Harbor. We didn't hang him.
> Ron h.
>
> BTW, our P-38's interception of his plane was made to look accidental as we
> did not want the Japanese to know we had broken their most secure cipher.
"... the Japanese communicator selected the current edition of JN25--the most
widely distributed high-security code--in which to armor this information."
[...]
"Nimitz ... sought to minimize the danger [of the Japanese changing codes] by
following Layton's suggestion of a cover story. This was to the effect that
Australian coastwatchers had radioed in the Yamamoto flight information,
probably getting it from friendly natives around Rabaul."
_The Codebreakers_ by David Kahn, pp. 595 & 599.
Terry
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