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range shared by Safford, a fellow officer in a destroyer division. Like
Dyer, he had solved the ciphers in the communications bulletins, and
Safford, in a sales campaign that began to the crack of musketry,
convinced him that he should specialize in cryptology. But it was not
until June of 1933 that Wright began his first tour in communications.
Sea duty alternated with cryptologic work until, in March of 1941, he
went to Pearl Harbor with Admiral Kimmel as the cryptanalyst in
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a. fleet security unit. He immediately began working with the Combat
Intelligence Unit and in February of 1942 was formally transferred to it.
He was then 39, a broad-shouldered redhead with craggy features and
big hands whose strong resemblance to a tugboat captain—his nickname
is "Ham"—belies his gentle manner and his courtesy. He too remained in
cryptology throughout the war, winning the Legion of Merit; like Dyer he
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