[Cryptography] How crypto killed Admiral Yamamoto

[Bill Frantz]

On 4/18/21 at 6:38 AM, bear at sonic.net (Ray Dillinger) wrote:

>The Japanese are believed to have underestimated the availability of
>American cryptographers familiar with the Japanese language.  But we
>were then as we still are today, 'A Nation Of Immigrants'.   However
>badly we may have treated Japanese-Americans during the war, recruiting
>and training cryptographers familiar with that language was not a
>show-stopping problem.

My brother-in-law's father-in-law was interned at Tule Lake 
during WW2. Like most people interred there, his bigest desire 
was to show his loyalty to the US. He ended up serving in Europe 
and then going to Japan after hostilities were over to act as a translater.

For the geeks among us: Later in life, he worked on video 
recorders for Ampex and lived in Palo Alto.

Cheers - Bill

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