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only three or four miles away, was garrisoned by Japanese troops.
Though messages about the missing crew continued to stream for the
rest of the week between PWD, KEN, and GSE, as Evans called his station
(after his wife, Gertrude Slaney Evans), the Japanese made no attempt to
capture them.
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Arthur Evans' decipherment of the message of 9:30 a.m., August 2, 1943, that reported
the sinking of John F. Kennedy's PT109
Yet the importance of the crew should have been obvious to the
Japanese from the many messages concerning it and from the search
mission flown by P-40s, and a capture could not have caused them too
much trouble, since on one occasion a Japanese barge chugged right
past the island hideout of Kennedy and his crew. Even if they had been
intercepting and reading the cryptograms, however, the Japanese may
not have wanted to waste time looking for the Americans, since none of
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