[Cryptography] How crypto killed Admiral Yamamoto

[Henry Baker]

At 07:57 PM 4/19/2021, Bill Frantz wrote:
>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.

I can add an enthusiastic 'Amen' to that.

One of my business partners was Nisei (US-born of Japanese immigrant
parents), as was his wife; they met in an internment camp. He didn't
believe in violence, so he served as a medic in the Korean War.

Invariably, the 1st or 2nd gen immigrants I've met are the most ardent
patriots; they've lived and heard the most about the alternatives and
really like it in the US.