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The Emperor's Codes

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by Michael Smith


  letter frequency, 25, 34

  machine ciphers, 3, 34–5, 44, 45–6

  maru, 127

  Morse, 64, 110, 112, 114; Japanese, 20, 23, 62–4, 110, 114, 115, 118, 123

  one-time pad, 82, 168

  penetration, 128

  Phillips Code, 68

  pinches, 35, 78, 174, 194, 253, 256

  Portuguese, 3

  random-number books, 202

  red forms, 27, 30

  repeater group/indicator, 175, 176

  Romanian, 3

  sixes, 69–71

  Soviet, 3, 17, 20, 37, 161

  Spanish, 3

  stripping, 194–207, 210, 221, 235

  substitution, 150, 158, 236

  Swedish, 3

  transposition, 150, 158

  twenties, 71

  vowel-consonant patterns, 46

  Yoxallismus, 220

  see also Bedford training course

  Cohen, Jon, 120, 121, 145, 146, 147, 195, 196–7, 209

  Cold War, 6

  Colegrave, Lieutenant-Commander E. H. M., 102–3, 111, 233

  Colombo: codebreaking, 6, 106, 107, 119, 124, 125–31, 135, 136, 137, 217, 226, 266, 267, 269; evacuated, 132, 133, 150; evacuation to, 12, 104; return to, 207–16

  Colossus computer, 3, 5

  Columbia University, 123

  Combined Bureau Middle East, 81

  Comilla, 232, 242, 245, 247, 248, 249

  Commercial Cable Postal Telegraph Company, 16

  Committee of Co-ordination, see Y Committee

  computers and rapid analytical machinery: Bombes, 76, 220; Colossus, 3, 5; ECM, 151; ENIAC, 5; Hollerith, 93, 105, 107, 195, 209, 210, 214; IBM, 123, 139, 177, 178, 185, 261; punch cards, 82, 123, 178; Rattler, 220

  Cooper, Arthur, 102–3, 111, 112

  Cooper, Josh, 4, 47, 102, 122

  Coral Sea, 134; Battle, 135, 137, 141, 142

  Cornwall, HMS, 129, 130

  Corregidor, see Cast

  Corriere della Sera, 51

  Cox (née Marshall), Hettie, 12–13

  Cox, John, 12–13

  Cox's Bazaar, 249

  Creighton, Commander Jack, 82

  Curnock, Lieutenant-Commander George, 128–9, 195, 196, 197

  Currier, Ensign Prescott, 74–7, 79, 124

  Curzon, Lord, 15–16, 19

  D-Day, 222–3, 224–5, 226

  Dagupan, 266

  Daily Express, 236

  Daly, Margaret, 238

  Darwin, 80, 81, 109, 113, 114, 167, 172, 259

  Day, Lance-Corporal Geoff, 10–11, 12, 106, 112–15, 271

  de Grey, Barbara, 240

  de Grey, Nigel, 57, 171, 240

  De Ruyter, RNNS, 109

  Delhi, 161–2, 167, 175, 176, 180, 186, 189, 191, 230, 232, 252

  Denham, Hugh, 145, 147, 194, 196

  Dennis, Lieutenant Jefferson R., 78, 79

  Denniston, Commander Alistair, 15, 16, 17–18, 22, 24, 28, 35, 36, 42, 43, 44, 52, 57–8, 74, 77, 92–3, 119

  Devonshire, HMS, 104

  Dickens, Admiral G. C., 32, 33, 35, 36

  direction-finding, 61–2, 84, 93, 94, 102, 106, 108, 116, 123, 173, 174, 198, 207–8, 245

  Domville, Rear-Admiral Sir Barry, 28

  Doorman, Rear-Admiral Karel, 109

  Dorsetshire, HMS, 129, 130

  double-envelope, 192

  Douglas, 164

  D'Oyly Carte, 188

  Dreyer, Admiral Sir Frederic, 31, 32

  Driscoll, Agnes, 218, 278

  Drummond, Sir Eric, 51

  Dutch East Indies, 88, 90, 94, 96, 119; see also Room 14

  Dyer, 140

  E Branch, 174, 261

  Eachus, Joe, 150

  Eastern Fleet Headquarters, 130

  Eastern Telegraph Company, 31, 33

  Eastern Wireless Signal Centre, 163–4, 232

  ECM machines, 151

  Edward II, 14

  Edward VIII, 50–1

  Edwards, Bob, 172–3

  837th Detachment, 166

  Electra, HMS, 98

  Elmers School, 60, 66, 87, 145

  Elsie's Indexes, 189–90

  Empress Augusta Bay, 184

  English, John, 201–2

  ENIAC computer, 5

  Enigma, see codes and ciphers: German

  Eniwetok, 255

  Enterprise, USS, 141

  Erskine, Major Hugh S., 261

  Esquimault, 79, 199

  Examination Unit (Canada), 199

  Express, HMS, 98

  Fabian, Lieutenant Rudi, 109, 124, 135, 148, 151, 152, 156, 169–70, 171, 182, 197, 198, 212–13, 217

  Fabyan, George, 69

  Far East Combined Bureau, 10, 12, 36, 40, 43, 44, 54, 56, 60–1, 66, 78, 79, 82, 88, 93–5, 101–2, 152, 156, 162, 176, 197

  Feeney, Archie, 13

  Feeney (née Gadd), Lillie, 11, 13, 104–5, 129

  Fibonacci system, 55, 59

  Field, Harry, 201

  51 Special Wireless Section, 172, 183

  52 Wireless Unit, 95

  53 Australian Wireless Section, 262

  55 Wireless Section, 172, 173, 174, 184, 185

  Figgess, Major John, 163

  Fiji, 198

  Fillingham, Colonel, 237

  Finnegan, Lieutenant-Commander Joe, 139, 140

  Finschhafen, 184, 257, 260

  Fish, see codes and ciphers: German

  fist, 83, 101

  5 Wireless Unit (RAAF), 270

  Fleet Radio Unit Melbourne, see FRUMEL

  Fleet Radio Unit Pacific, see FRUPAC

  Fletcher, Donald, 258

  Fletcher, Rear Admiral Frank ‘Black Jack’, 135, 136

  Flew, Tony, 246–7

  Flintham, Gordon, 23, 220

  Flowerdown, 63, 118, 145

  Flowers, Tommy, 5

  Force Z, 98–9, 101

  Ford, Dr, 124

  ‘Foreign Legion’, 265, 266

  Formidable, HMS, 132

  Formosa, 263

  Fort McKinley, 82, 116, 166

  Fort Monmouth Cryptanalysis School, 179

  Fortitude, Operation, 225

  Foss, Alison, 52, 146, 214

  Foss, Hugh, 5, 34, 45, 46, 51–2, 118, 145, 146, 201, 214, 220, 221, 278

  Four Power Treaty, 28–9

  4 Wireless Unit (RAAF), 266, 270, 271

  France: battle for (1940), 241; codes, 17, 19, 20; fall of, 158; Four Power Treaty, 28–9; Vichy, 89

  French Indochina, 88, 89, 91

  Friedman, William F., 3, 47, 68–73, 74, 179

  FRUMEL, 148, 152, 155, 156, 169, 170, 171, 174, 181, 182, 183, 185, 194, 197, 198, 199, 212, 218, 226, 253, 264, 277

  FRUPAC, 170, 182, 212, 213, 218, 226, 227, 260, 277

  Fushimi Hiroyasu, Admiral Prince, 96

  Galvanic, Operation, 255

  Gamlin, George, 83

  Gascoine, Nourma, 110

  Gavutu, 157

  GCHQ, 5, 278

  Germany: Abwehr, 225; Anti-Comintern Pact (1936), 49, 51, 53; Japan and, 48, 49, 86–7, 90, 91, 97, 98, 99; League of Nations, 49; Luftwaffe, 87, 225; Poland, 73; security, 4; Third Reich, 47; Tripartite Pact (1940), 65, 67, 73, 85; War Office, 48; Wehrmacht, 3, 94; see also codes and ciphers

  Ghana, 162

  GHQ Far East, 12

  Gibraltar, 84

  Gibson, Robin, 233

  Gill, Kirk, 63

  Glover, Sergeant Mark, 192

  Godfrey, Admiral John, 57, 78, 156

  Goering, Hermann, 87

  Golombek, Harry, 190–1

  Government Code and Cipher School, 1, 4, 5, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 27, 28, 36–7, 38, 40, 41, 43, 46, 50, 51, 52, 55, 57, 58, 60, 81, 120, 122, 149, 152, 171, 218, 226, 238, 278

  Grafing, Jack, 274–5

  Graves, Hubert, 172

  Great Game, 161

  ‘Great Marianas Turkey Shoot, The’, 260

  Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, 95

  Griffin, John, 190

  Grose, S
ydney, 121

  Grotjan, Genevieve, 72

  Guadalcanal, 157, 170, 174, 175, 182

  Guam, 109, 260, 264

  Gulf of Siam, 9, 101

  Gurnard, USS, 256

  H Branch, 261

  Haguro, 267, 268

  Hainan, 95, 99

  Hall, Peter, 262, 271

  Halmahera, 256

  Halpin, Major Zach, 178, 261

  Halsey, Admiral William F., 184

  Hammond, Padre, 172–3

  Hansa Bay, 255

  Harris-Jones, Sergeant, 202

  Harrison, Rex, 9–10

  Hart, Elsie, 189–90

  Hastings, Captain Edward, 217

  Hawaii, see Hypo; FRUPAC; Pearl Harbor

  Hawkins, HMS, 22

  Hector, HMS, 130

  Heliopolis, 81

  Hermes, HMS, 129, 130

  Hinsley, Harry, 213–14, 217–18

  Hirohito, Emperor, 25, 88, 91, 272, 273, 275, 276

  Hiroshima, 273, 274

  Hiryu, 134, 141

  Hitler, Adolf, 2, 47, 48, 53, 55, 86, 87, 90, 91, 97, 98, 99, 106, 223, 225

  Hobart-Hampden, Ernest, 17–18, 20, 27, 29, 41, 43

  Hollandia, 181, 254, 255, 257, 261, 262, 264

  Hollerith tabulating machine, 93, 105, 107, 195, 209, 210, 214

  Holmes, Jasper, 138, 139, 183

  Holmes, Robert, 256–7

  Home Guard, 190

  Hong Kong, 22, 36–7, 100; cable traffic, 43, 44; codebreaking, 6, 54, 79, 99–100; fall of, 60, 109

  Hooghly River, 245

  Hooper, Joe, 238, 245, 246

  Hope, Bob, 172

  Hope, G. L. N., 57–8

  Hordern, ‘Shrimp’, 200

  Hornet, USS, 260

  Huckins, 140

  Hull, Cordell, 97

  Humble, Olive, 203–5, 206, 275–6

  Humphries, Captain John, 192

  111th Signal Radio Intelligence Company, 262, 265, 270

  112th Signal Radio Intelligence Company, 262, 266

  125th Signal Radio Intelligence Company, 262, 265, 270

  126th Signal Radio Intelligence Company, 262, 270

  Hungary, 3

  Hypo (Pearl Harbor), 6, 95, 96, 106, 108, 109, 123, 124, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 144, 155, 181, 182, 194

  I, Operation, 182

  I-1, 175

  IBM, 123, 139, 177, 178, 185, 261

  Imphal, 164, 243, 244, 249

  Indaw, 229

  indexes, 189–90, 239–40, 275

  India, 61, 102, 132, 160–1, 223, 230, 241, 247; Army, 12, 160, 162, 165, 241

  Indian Ocean, 128, 134, 149, 153

  Indian State Railways, 105

  Indianapolis, USS, 260

  Indochina, 97

  Indomitable, HMS, 98–9, 132

  Inland Sea, 101

  Intelligence Corps, 192

  Intelligence Corps Wireless Intelligence Section, 249

  Intelligence Department, 38, 39

  Intelligence School ‘C’, 164, 232

  intercept operators, 210, 261

  Inter-Service Wireless Intelligence Staff, 162, 164

  Inter-Services Topographical Department, 246

  Irrawaddy, 247–8, 249

  Italy, 51; cable traffic, 44; codes, 3; surrenders, 238; Tripartite Pact (1940), 65, 67, 73, 85

  Ito Seiichi, Colonel, 223, 225

  Iwo Jima, 272

  Izumi, Staff Officer, 254

  J machine, 47

  Jack, USS, 256

  Jacobsen, Phillip H., 123–4, 141–2, 137, 138–9, 144, 175

  Japan: air force, 56, 57, 100, 101, 109, 129, 134, 186, 232, 233, 244; Anti-Comintern Pact (1936), 49, 51, 53; army, 29, 30, 31, 42, 48, 56, 85, 170, 181, 182, 184–5, 243, 256, 257; Britain ends alliance, 28, 43; China, 29, 53; expansionism, 4, 30, 48, 84–5; Foreign Ministry, 3, 26, 31, 44, 86, 88, 95, 97; Four Power Treaty, 28–9; General Army Air Command, 274; Germany and, 48, 49, 86–7, 90, 91, 97, 98, 99; hatred of foreigners, 40; Imperial Conference (1941), 88, 91, 93; kamikaze, 263, 267; language, 20, 21–2, 25, 35; League of Nations, 30, 49; merchant fleet, 127; militarism, 29; navy, 18, 26, 31, 49, 54, 56, 59, 79, 84, 93, 94, 95, 96, 98, 101, 128, 137, 158, 163, 182, 260, 267, 268; recruitment, 173; ‘reluctant to be drawn into war’, 86; Secret Service, 40; security, 25, 57; shame of surrender, 211; Sho celebrations, 262; Soviet Union and, 36; spy network, 30–2, 33, 34; Tripartite Pact (1940), 65, 67, 73, 85; unconditional surrender, 273, 274, 275; Washington Conference, 28; see also codes and ciphers

  Japanese cables and telegrams (dendai), 16–17, 21–2, 31, 33, 43, 44, 66, 88, 180, 190

  Japanese Mandated Islands, 79

  Java, 13, 104, 106, 109; see also Room 14

  Java Sea, 109

  John Lewis, 278

  Johnston, Stanley, 142

  Johore Bharu, 11

  Jolly, Brigadier W. A., 153

  Jones, Captain Daniel, 238

  Jones (Craig), Captain Douglas, 238

  Jones, Mervyn, 159–60, 189, 190

  Jones, R. V., 225–6

  Junkers, 87

  Jury, Captain, 259

  Kabul, 161

  Kaga, 141

  Kaindi, 184

  Kalindi, 163

  Kalinga, 114

  kamikaze, 263, 267

  Kamimbo, 175

  kana, 20, 30, 34–5, 38, 45, 57, 58, 113, 150, 158, 160, 163, 168, 173, 183

  Kandy, 242

  Kavieng, 163

  Keeffe, Bernard, 236–8, 269

  Keith, Lieutenant-Commander Bruce, 58–9, 145–6, 154–5, 195, 207, 217, 228

  Kelsey, Ken, 242

  Kennedy, Captain Malcolm, 42–3, 60, 65–6, 88–9, 94, 99, 100, 101, 119

  Kenney, Major-General George C., 171, 181, 182, 184, 185, 255

  Kent, HMS, 31

  Kenworthy, Harold, 46–7, 67

  Kenya, 195

  Kerry, Michael, 230–1, 241, 245

  key-breakers, 224

  Khartoum, 195

  Kilindini, 133, 145, 147–8, 149, 150, 151, 152–3, 154, 155–6, 171, 175, 194, 197, 198, 204, 207, 226

  Kimura Hoyotaro, General, 248

  King, Admiral Ernest J., 142, 157

  King George V, King, 267

  King's African Rifles, 133

  Kiwi, HMNZS, 175

  Knox, Dilly, 2

  Koga Mineichi, Admiral, 255

  Kohima, 243, 244

  Kokoda, 173

  Konoye Fumimaro, Prince, 85, 88, 93

  Korea, 191

  Kota Bharu, 10, 12, 98, 100

  Kra Isthmus, 98

  Kranji, 9, 11, 61, 63, 81, 82–4, 104

  Kuala Lumpur, 237

  Kuching, 102

  Kure, 24, 94

  Kurita Takeo, Admiral, 262

  Kyushu, 136

  Labuan, 270, 271

  Ladybird, HMS, 53

  Lae, 181, 182, 184

  Lagos, 195

  Laird, Captain H. R. M., 156

  Lancashire, HMT, 104

  Lancaster, Claude, Jr, 258–60

  Laslett, Peter, 214–15, 216, 269, 274

  Lasswell, Major Alva ‘Red’, 182

  Lavell, Ann, 239–40

  Layton, Edwin T., 183

  League of Nations, 30, 49

  Leary, Admiral, 169

  LeMay, General Curtis, 272

  Lexington, USS, 135–6, 142

  Leyte, 262, 265, 266

  Leyte Gulf, Battle of, 262

  Lindsay, A. D., 120, 224

  Lingayen Gulf, 266

  Linnane, Joy, 115–17

  Lloyd, John, 215

  Lloyd-Jones, Hugh, 231, 233

  London Berkeley Square, 15; Berkeley Street, 122, 226; Broadway Buildings, 28, 32, 35, 51, 52, 58; Devonshire House, 192; Japanese Naval Centre, 32; Metropolitan Police Nursing Home, 44; Queen's Gate, 15; Watergate House, 15

  Longrigg, Paul, 207–8

  Luzon, 256, 263, 265

  Lydekker, Julie, 275

  MacArthur, General Doug
las, 109, 111, 134, 135, 157, 166, 167, 169, 170, 171, 174, 181, 182, 184, 229, 252–64, 265, 271–2

  MccGwire, Juliet, 118

  MacInnes, John, 107, 128, 130–1, 133, 135, 136, 150, 175–6, John, 196

  McIntyre, Commander, 201

  Mackie, Lieutenant-Commander Tom, 253–4

  Madang, 181, 182, 252, 255

  Madang-Hansa Bay, 254

  Madras, 251

  Magic, 3, 73

  Magnetic Island, 116

  Maine, Henry, 16–17, 43–4

  Maizuru, 24

  Major Barbara (film), 9–10

  Malaya: Japanese invade, 9–13, 100–4, 109, 120; Navy, 62

  Maldives, 129

  Malta, 17, 44

  Man, Isle of, 164

  Manchukuo, 30, 49, 86

  Manchuria, 33, 274; Incident, 30

  Mandalay, 161, 230, 248, 250

  Manila, 82

  Mariana Islands, 137, 255, 260, 264, 272

  Markham Valley, 255

  Marr-Johnson, Lieutenant-Colonel Peter, 56, 82, 162, 230

  Marsden, J. W., 42–3, 50

  Marshall, General George C., 135

  Marshall Islands, 134, 255

  Martin, Major W. E., 204–5

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 220

  Matador, Operation, 98

  Matsuoka Yosuke, 73, 85, 88

  Maungdaw, 164, 230

  Mauritius, 199, 226

  Maymyo, 161

  Mead, David, 185, 252

  Medway, Jill, 190, 238

  Meiktila, 244, 245, 248, 249

  Melbourne, 81, 109–17, 124, 134, 135, 136, 138, 145

  melders, 239

  melding, 239

  Melinsky, Hugh, 257–8, 259, 270, 271–2

  Menado, 256

  Menzies, Robert, 80

  Menzies, Colonel Stewart (‘C’), 33, 76, 91

  Merrill, Brigadier General Frank D., 230

  Merry, Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander

  Alan, 81–2, 111, 152

  Metropolitan Police, 44, 46

  MI1b, 14, 41

  MI2, 86, 186

  MI5, 225

  MI6, 1, 19, 28, 32, 33, 34, 37, 43, 44, 55, 56, 91, 242

  MI8, 192

  Midway, Battle of, 132–44, 148, 151, 157, 277

  Mill Hill, 200

  Miller, Glenn, 237

  Milne Bay, 174, 175

  Mingaladon air base, 245, 246, 250

  Mishima maru, 22

  Mitchell, Major John, 183

  Mitscher, Admiral Marc, 255

  MO, Operation, 134

  Moa, HMNZS, 175

  Mombasa: evacuation to, 132

  Monterey, 110, 213

  Monywa, 248

  Moorabbin, 110, 174

  morale, 39

  Morse code, see codes and ciphers Moscow, 161

  Mount Vernon Seminary, 214

  Mountbatten, Lord, 226, 229, 243, 268

  Mukden, 30

  Munich Crisis (1938), 56

  Murrill, Sergeant Herbert, 238

 

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