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That's exactly why they didn't get anywhere. Per the Reddit thread below, Joe was able to understand phrases like "red soil ahead", but that was not enough to w

• sidewndr46 2y ago
  It is interesting then because it shows how laughably ineffective the actions of the Japanese were in World War II. All they needed to do was have Joe do transliteration, then pass the results to intelligence analysts. It would have yielded something, albeit likely limited