TheCodeBreakers
On May 21 a
Japanese newscaster announced, in tones heavy with sorrow, that
Yamamoto, "while directing general strategy on the front line in April of
this year, engaged in combat with the enemy and met gallant death in a
war plane." Toward the end of the communique his voice became choked,
as if through tears. As Layton and Nimitz had foreseen, Yamamoto's
death stunned the entire nation. On June 5, his ashes were interred with
great pomp in Tokyo's Hibiya Park in the presence of the government and
an immense and silent crowd. The death of the great popular hero
disheartened
Japanese soldiers, sailors, and civilians. "There was only one
Yamamoto, and no one is able to replace him," said the man who
succeeded him. "His loss is an insupportable blow to us." Cryptanalysis
had given America the equivalent of a major victory.
What happened to cryptology during World War II?
The war worked no changes as basic as those of telegraphy, which
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