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and decisively won, and so there was no burst of wild cheering in the
basement office. The cryptanalysts reacted prosaically. The unit went on
a watch in three instead of a watch and watch. It was also expanding
rapidly. By the next year, it had changed its name to Fleet Radio
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Unit, Pacific Fleet—FRUPAC, in the Navy's interminable list of
acronyms. Rochefort had departed in October, 1942, for two years of
noncryptologic duties. He was replaced by Captain William B. Goggins,
44, a 1919 Annapolis graduate with long communications experience.
Goggins, who had been wounded in the Battle of the Java Sea, remained
as head of FRUPAC to January, 1945. Dyer continued to head
cryptanalysis. Eventually FRUPAC comprised a personnel of more than
1,000. Much of the work was done in the new Joint Intelligence Center,
housed in a long narrow building across Midway Drive from Nimitz'
headquarters perched atop a cliff overlooking Pearl Harbor. Fabian, in