TheCodeBreakers
War and Navy departments, composing, enciphering, transmitting, and
deciphering an appropriate warning, and alerting the outpost forces. This
was just what the shoguns intended. But just as a multitude of human
errors on the part of Americans, cascading one atop the other, helped
make tactical surprise perfect, so a series of similar human errors on the
part of the Japanese deprived them of their last vestige of legality.
Shortly after the attack commenced, Tadao Fuchikama, a messenger
for the Honolulu office of R.C.A., picked up a batch of cables for delivery.
He knew that the war had started and that it was the Japanese who were
attacking the ships in the harbor, but he felt he had his job to do
anyway. He glanced at the addresses on the envelopes, including the one
marked "Commanding General," and planned an efficient route. Shafter
was well down the list. His motorcycle progressed slowly through the
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