Joe Rochefort’s War: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway by Elliot Carlson
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Overview: This is the first biography of Capt. Joe Rochefort, the Officer in Charge of Station Hypo the U.S. Navy s decrypt unit at Pearl Harbor and his key role in breaking the Imperial Japanese Navy s main code before the Battle of Midway. It brings together the disparate threads of Rochefort s life and career, beginning with his enlistment in the Naval Reserve in 1918 at age 17 (dropping out of high school and adding a year to his age). It chronicles his earliest days as a mustang (an officer who has risen from the ranks), his fortuitous posting to Washington, where he headed the Navy s codebreaking desk at age 25, then, in another unexpected twist, found himself assigned to Tokyo to learn Japanese.
This biography records Rochefort s surprising love-hate relationship with cryptanalysis, his joyful exit from the field, his love of sea duty, his adventure-filled years in the 30s as the right-hand man to the Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet, and his reluctant return to codebreaking in mid-1941 when he was ordered to head the Navy s decrypt unit at Pearl (Station Hypo). The book focuses on Rochefort s inspiring leadership of Hypo, recording first his frustrating months in late 1941 searching for Yamamoto s fleet, then capturing a guilt-ridden Rochefort in early 1942 mounting a redemptive effort to track that fleet after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.
Genre: Non-Fiction, Biography, History, War, World War II
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