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at the track itself housed the I.B.M. machinery. Sinkov worked -wonders:
when a downed Japanese bomber yielded an air-to-ground codebook, it
was discovered that Sinkov had already recovered nearly all of it. His title
at the end of the war was Cryptanalytic Officer, Signal Intelligence
Service, U.S. Army Forces, Far East; his rank by then was colonel. A
sweet and unmilitary man who seemed slightly embarrassed by the
eagles on his shoulders, he was unable to return a salute without
blurting out a "Good morning." He was awarded a Legion of Merit and an
Oak Leaf Cluster to it for his work.
Some elements of the Central Bureau were—despite the name—
attached to widely scattered units. MacArthur's chief signal officer,
Brigadier General Spencer B. Akin, who enjoyed more authority than any
other theater signal officer, attached communications-intelligence units
to major headquarters so that the intelligence would be promptly
available to officers who could act upon it
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