TheCodeBreakers
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November of 1943, for example, the 3rd Fleet employed three officers and
six enlisted men to monitor enemy messages. But most went straight
into the Tokumu Han proper.
A torrent of intercepts was pouring into it. Most came from the
hundreds of radio receivers and direction-finders of the Owada
Communications Unit. Some were picke up by the 20 Americans and
Australians pressed into sei vice with the Kanagawa
Communication Force nea Hiyoshi, and a few messages trickled in
from fleet radi units. Near the end of the war a unit was set up in radish
field at Yokosuka. The entire Tokumu Han ha swollen to several
thousand men by the end of the wai most engaged in intercepting. So
hungry was it for competent personnel that it did something almost
unheard-of in misogynistic Japan; it employed women—putting about 30
nisei girls to work eavesdropping on American radiotelephone
conversations
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