Steven E. Maffeo

U.S. Navy Codebreakers, Linguists, and Intelligence Officers against Japan, 1910-1941

A Biographical Dictionary

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Produktbeschreibung

This unique reference presents 59 biographies of people who were key to the sea services being reasonably prepared to fight the Japanese Empire when the Second World War broke out, and whose advanced work proved crucial. These intelligence pioneers invented techniques, procedures, and equipment from scratch, not only allowing the United States to hold its own in the Pacific despite the loss of most of its Fleet at Pearl Harbor, but also laying the foundation of today’s intelligence methods and agencies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1075g
• ISBN-13: 9781442255630
• ISBN-10: 1442255633
• Artikelnr.: 42966389

Autorenporträt

Steven E. Maffeo

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Vice Admiral John M. Poindexter, USN, Ret.
Author's Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Illustrations
The Scanners
(radio direction-finders and radio traffic analysts)
Captain Thomas Averill Huckins, U.S. Navy (1901-1982)
Captain John Alton Williams, U.S. Navy (1905-1962)
The Book-breakers
(cryptographers and codebreakers)
Rear Admiral Bern Anderson, U.S. Navy (1900-1963)
Commander Henry M. Anthony, U.S. Coast Guard (1902-1991)
Captain Prescott Hunt Currier, U.S. Navy (1912-1994)
Rear Admiral Jefferson Rice Dennis, U.S. Navy (1909-1958)
Mrs. Agnes May Meyer Driscoll, U.S. Navy Civilian (1889-1971)
Captain Thomas "Tommy" Harold Dyer, U.S. Navy (1902-1985)
Captain Rudolph Joseph Fabian, U.S. Navy (1908-1984)
Rear Admiral William Bernard Goggins, U.S. Navy (1904-1995)
Captain Ernest Sidney Lewis Goodwin, U.S. Navy (1904-1992)
Captain John Sylvester Harper, U.S. Navy (1900-1975)
Captain Jack Sebastian Holtwick, Jr., U.S. Navy (1907-1987)
Captain Linwood Sylvester Howeth, U.S. Navy (1902-1972)
Rear Admiral Raymond Starr Lamb, U.S. Navy (1902-1957)
Captain John Marion Lietwiler, U.S. Navy (1908-1978)
Chief Radioman Walter Joseph McGregor, U.S. Navy (1906-1941)
Captain Lee Wood Parke, U.S. Naval Reserve (1904-1986)
Lieutenant James Warren Pearson, U.S. Navy (1910-1992)
Captain Albert Joseph Pelletier, Jr., U.S. Navy (1914-1999)
Vice Admiral Bernard Franklin Roeder, U.S. Navy (1911-1971)
Captain Laurance Frye Safford, U.S. Navy (1890-1973)
Rear Admiral Earl Everett Stone, U.S. Navy (1895-1989)
Admiral Arthur Dewey Struble, U.S. Navy (1894-1983)
Rear Admiral Robert Harper Weeks, U.S. Navy (1909-2003)
Rear Admiral Joseph Numa Wenger, U.S. Navy (1901-1970)
Captain Duane Lewis Whitlock, U.S. Navy (1917-2007)
Vice Admiral Russell Willson, U.S. Navy (1883-1948)
Captain Wesley Arnold "Ham" Wright, U.S. Navy (1902-1986)
Rear Admiral Richard Dewey Zern, U.S. Navy (1905-1958)
The Blue Sky Merchants
(linguists, translators, and intelligence officers)
Captain Forrest Rosecrans "Tex" Biard, U.S. Navy (1912-2009)
Captain Henri de Balathier Claiborne, U.S. Navy (1903-1969)
Rear Admiral Cecil Hengy Coggins, M.C., U.S. Navy (1902-1987)
Captain Joseph Francis Finnegan, U.S. Navy (1905-1980)
Rear Admiral Ranson Fullinwider, U.S. Navy (1905-1969)
Brigadier General Bankson Taylor Holcomb, Jr., U.S. Marine Corps
(1908-2000)
Captain Wilfred Jay "Jasper" Holmes, U.S. Navy (1900-1986)
Captain Stephen Jurika, Jr., U.S. Navy (1910-1993)
Colonel Alva Bryan "Red" Lasswell, U.S. Marine Corps (1905-1988)
Rear Admiral Edwin Thomas Layton, U.S. Navy (1903-1984)
Rear Admiral Arthur Howard McCollum, U.S. Navy (1898-1976)Rear Admiral
Kenneth Duval Ringle, U.S. Navy (1900-1963)
Captain Fred Fremont Rogers, U.S. Navy (1884-1952)
Lieutenant Commander Durwood Garland "Tex" Rorie, U.S. Navy (1909-1987)
Captain William Joseph Sebald, U.S. Naval Reserve (1901-1980)
Captain Gilven Max Slonim, U.S. Navy (1901-1977)
Captain Henri Harold Smith-Hutton, U.S. Navy (1901-1977)
Vice Admiral Rufus Lackland Taylor, Jr., U.S. Navy (1910-1978)
Captain Edward Howe Watson, U.S. Navy (1874-1942)
Rear Admiral Ethelbert Watts, U.S. Navy (1902-1966)
Rear Admiral Ellis Mark Zacharias, Sr., U.S. Navy (1890-1961)
The "Hybrids"
(multi-skilled and multi-proficient)
Captain Thomas Butler Birtley, Jr., U.S. Navy (1899-1956)
Vice Admiral Howard Fithian Kingman, U.S. Navy (1890-1968)
Captain Alwin Dalton Kramer, U.S. Navy (1903-1972)
Rear Admiral Redfield Barnard Mason, U.S. Navy (1904-1995)
Rear Admiral John Walter McClaran, U.S. Navy (1887-1948)
Rear Admiral Gill MacDonald Richardson, U.S. Navy (1905-1988)
Captain Joseph John Rochefort, U.S. Navy (1900-1976)
Captain John George Roenigk, U.S. Navy (1912-1993)
Appendices
A. What's a Code, and What's a Cipher
B. Chronology of Select Highlights, U.S. Navy Radio Intelligence,
Pacific Area of Operations 1916-1941
C. Directors of U.S. Naval Intelligence, 1909-1942
D. Directors of U.S. Naval Communications, 1912-1942
E. U.S. Naval Attachés in Tokyo, 1914-1941
F. U.S. Navy, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Office of Naval
Communications, Section "OP-20-G" and its Antecedents
G. Officers-in-Charge, Office of Naval Communications, Code and Signal
Section, "Research Desk," OP-20-GX
H. Officers-in-Charge, Office of Naval Communications, Code and Signal
Section, Translation Section, OP-20-GZ
I. Growth of U.S. Naval Radio Intelligence
J. U.S. Naval Radio Intelligence, Primarily Focused upon Japan, as of
December 1941
K. Station HYPO, Territory of Hawaii
L. U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps Japanese Language/Culture Officers
Immersed in Japan, 1910-1941
M. The "On the Roof Gang"
N. Operation "Vengeance"
Suggested Reading
Glossary
Index