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To: DManA

The coded messages basically let them know Midway was the target. Beyond that small starting place, it was basically guts and skill of the aircrews.
The codebreaking didn’t lead our planes to the Jap fleet, etc. The location and attack on that ememy fleet was pure naval skill.
The Japs were never found via radar or anything else.

The codebreaking kept the attack on Midway from being a surprise, but did little beyond that.


30 posted on 06/04/2013 1:17:33 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: DesertRhino

Beyond that small starting place,

Small starting place? There would never have been a battle without it. The japs would have taken Midway without hardly a fight.


43 posted on 06/04/2013 4:48:55 PM PDT by DManA
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