Joe Rochefort's war : the odyssey of the codebreaker who outwitted Yamamoto at Midway / Elliot Carlson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carlson, Elliot, 1936-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Midway, Battle of, 1942.

Cryptographers--United States--Biography.

Cryptographers.

World War, 1939-1945--Cryptography.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Electronic intelligence.

World War, 1939-1945--Military intelligence--United States.

World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American.

World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, Japanese.

United States. Navy--Officers--Biography.

United States.

Rochefort, Joe, 1900-1976.

Rochefort, Joe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (625 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first biography of Capt. Joe Rochefort, the Officer in Charge of Station Hypo the U.S. Navy's decrypt unit at Pearl Harbor and his key role in breaking the Imperial Japanese Navy's main code before the Battle of Midway. It brings together the disparate threads of Rochefort's life and career, beginning with his enlistment in the Naval Reserve in 1918 at age 17 (dropping out of high school and adding a year to his age). It chronicles his earliest days as a mustang (an officer who has risen from the ranks), his fortuitous posting to Washington, where he headed the Navy's codebr

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Riddle of Joe Rochefort; 1 Trolley to San Pedro; 2 Mustang; 3 Odyssey of a Codebreaker; 4 Fleet Gadfly, Tokyo Whiz; 5 The Admiral's Confidant; 6 Assignment Pearl Harbor; 7 A Most Unusual Place; 8 Rochefort's World; 9 Shadowing Yamamoto; 10 Encounter with Kimmel; 11 Ill Wind; 12 Comedy of Errors; 13 Air Raid Pearl Harbor!; 14 The Long Wait for JN-25(b); 15 Pearl Harbor Aftermath; 16 Strike Up the Band; 17 Koryaku Butai; 18 Not a Very Glorious Incident; 19 The Dungeon Comes Alive; 20 A Silk Purse Out of a Sow's Ear; 21 King Comes Calling

22 Something Is Brewing23 Five Days in May; 24 Rochefort's War; 25 Affirm Fox Is Confirmed Here; 26 Nimitz Comes Around; 27 Our Man in Tokyo; 28 By Any and All Means; 29 Remedial Action; 30 Drydocked; Epilogue: The Medal; Appendix 1. Rochefort's DSM Citation; Appendix 2. Breaking JN-25(b); Appendix 3. The Meaning of Midway; Appendix 4. The Kido Butai and Radio Silence; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613789303

9781281733191

1281733199

9781612510736

1612510736

OCLC:

762689547