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Naval Institute and its services, please call us at or , or write to Customer Service at the U. Naval Institute,. Now available in paperback, Elliot Carlsons award-winning biography of Capt.
Joe Rochefort is the first to be written about the officer who headed Station Hypo, the U. Navys signals monitoring and cryptographic intelligence unit at Pearl Harbor, and who broke the Japanese navys code before the Battle of Midway. The book brings Rochefort to life as the irreverent, fiercely independent, and consequential officer that he was.
Readers share his frustrations as he searches in vain for Yamamotos fleet prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but share his joy when he succeeds in tracking the fleet in early and breaks the code that leads Rochefort to believe Yamamotos invasion target is Midway. His conclusions, bitterly opposed by some top Navy brass, are credited with making the U.
The author tells the story of how opponents in Washington forced Rocheforts removal from Station Hypo and denied him the Distinguished Service Medal recommended by Admiral Nimitz.
