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> It’s one reason that we won the battle of Midway Interesting story here that Nimitz had to make an extraordinary gamble the intercepted Japanese communicatio
by julienchastang 4y ago
> It’s one reason that we won the battle of Midway
Interesting story here that Nimitz had to make an extraordinary gamble the intercepted Japanese communications were talking about Midway island and not somewhere in the Aleutians (the other possible candidate). The gamble paid off and the Japanese navy was always on the defensive after that point.
- ceejayoz 4y ago> Interesting story here that Nimitz had to make an extraordinary gamble the intercepted Japanese communications were talking about Midway island and not somewhere in the Aleutians (the other possible candidate). They were rather more certain of that. https://www.history.com/news/battle-midway-codebreakers-allies-pacific-theater https://www.history.com/news/battle-midway-codebreakers-alli... > Determined to dispel such doubts, Rochefort’s team famously devised a ruse. Via submarine, they sent a message to the base on Midway instructing personnel there to radio Pearl Harbor that the salt-water evaporators on the base had broken down. Two days later, a Japanese message was intercepted that reported “AF” was running out of fresh drinking water.