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The Emperor's Codes

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by Michael Smith


  Mussolini, Benito, 51, 53, 86

  Myitkyina, 229

  Nagano Osami, Admiral, 96

  Nagasaki, 273

  Nagumo Chuichi, Admiral, 129, 130, 134, 138

  Nairobi, 195

  Nanking, 53

  Nave (née Gray), Helena, 62

  Nave, Paymaster Lieutenant Eric, 5, 21–30, 32–6, 38, 43, 57, 58, 62, 80, 93, 100–1, 110–12, 115, 142, 148, 151, 152, 167–9, 171–2, 220, 234, 257, 259–61, 263, 270, 271, 278

  Nazdab, 255

  Nestor, SS, 64

  New Bradwell, 147

  New Britain, 134, 157

  New Georgia, 184

  New Guinea, 116, 134, 157, 170, 171, 172, 174, 181, 182, 184, 252, 254, 255, 256, 260, 262

  New Ireland, 163

  New Mexico Desert, 273

  New York Daily Mirror, 142

  New Zealand, 61, 79, 82, 199

  Newcastle, HMS, 132

  Newman, Commander Jack, 80, 110, 148

  Newport Pagnell, 190

  Newton-John, Brin, 238–9

  Nigeria, 162

  Nilgiri Hills, 251

  Nimitz, Admiral Chester W., 134, 135, 140, 141–2, 144, 255, 277

  No. 1 Wireless Unit, 174, 255

  Noemfor, 257

  Normandy, 224–5

  North China Signals Section, 40, 41

  Northampton, 60

  Noyce, Wilfrid, 175, 180, 231, 279

  O'Connor, Colonel Tim, 226

  Official Secrets Act, 16, 31, 204, 211, 221, 275, 276

  Okinawa, 266, 267, 268, 269, 272

  Oliver, Roland, 159–60 ‘On the Roof Gang’, 123

  1 Wireless Unit (RAAF), 262

  Ootacamund, 251

  Op-20-G, 74, 92, 106, 109, 123, 134, 138, 143, 148, 149, 151, 155, 171, 182, 197, 198, 199, 213, 214, 218, 220, 226, 226–7, 228, 247, 269, 278

  Orange, see codes and ciphers: Japanese Ormoc, 262

  Ortlan, 175

  Oshima Hiroshi, 48–9, 73, 76, 86–8, 91–2, 88, 90, 91, 94, 97–8, 99, 106, 223, 224

  Ottawa, 199

  Overlord, Operation, 223

  Owen Stanley Range, 173, 184

  Oxford University, 1, 41, 120, 175, 201, 205, 216, 223, 231, 246

  Palau, 163, 184

  Palestine, 219

  Panama Canal, 61

  Pan-American Airways, 82

  paraphrasing, 192

  Parkin, Don, 192

  Parlett, Harold, 21, 22, 27, 29, 41

  Pas de Calais, 223, 224–5

  Patani, 98

  Pearl Harbor: Japanese attack, 96, 100–1, 106, 120, 123, 129, 278; see also FRUPAC and Hypo

  Peking, 40, 53

  Pellow, Margaret, 239

  Pembroke College, Ceylon, 105, 125–31

  Penang, 101–2, 128

  Peradeniya, 242

  Petrides, Anne, 200–1

  Philippine Guerrilla Army, 271

  Philippines, 78, 82, 91, 96, 100, 101, 109, 166, 168, 172, 229, 259, 262, 263, 265, 268, 269, 271

  Philippines Sea, 255

  Philpott, Lieutenant, 198

  Phoney War, 2

  Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing: Gay Lord Quex, 1

  Pitman, Robert, 236

  Plumb, Sir John, 200, 215

  Point Cook, 115, 116

  Point Grey, Vancouver, 223, 226

  Poland: codebreakers, 3–4; Germany invades, 73

  Port Moresby, 134, 135, 136, 172, 181, 255, 260; see also 55

  Wireless Section Portsmouth Signal School, 35

  Portugal, 3

  Post Office, 15

  Potsdam Conference, 272, 273

  preambles, 210

  Prescott, 79

  Prince of Wales, HMS, 98, 101

  prisoners of war, British, 13, 102, 159, 250, 276

  Procedure Y, 23

  Public Record Office, 5

  punch cards, see computers and rapid analytical machinery

  Purple, see codes and ciphers: Japanese

  Putt, Gorley, 200

  ‘Quex’, see Sinclair, Admiral Hugh

  Rabaul, 112, 134, 157, 163, 174, 182, 184, 185, 234

  Radio Intelligence Unit, 136

  radio-fingerprinting, 84, 93, 94, 198

  RAGFOR, 264

  Rajputana, 162

  Ramjas College, 161–2

  Rangoon, 161, 177, 189, 245, 250, 251, 268

  Rangoon River, 250

  Rastenberg, 90, 97

  Ratcliffe, Dorothy, 165–6

  Rattler, 220

  Raven, Lieutenant-Commander Francis A., 218, 278–9

  Rawalpindi, 165

  Red, see codes and ciphers: Japanese Red papers, 52

  Redman, Commander John, 143–4

  Redman, Rear Admiral Joseph, 143–4, 198, 217, 218, 228

  Rejewski, Marian, 4

  Repulse, HMS, 98, 101

  Reuters, 43

  Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 48, 51, 73, 87, 91, 98

  Richard, Joseph E., 167–8, 171, 176–80, 186, 189, 252–3, 256–7, 279

  Richardson, Lieutenant-Commander Gill, 183

  Richmond Park, 33

  Roberts, Joy, 114, 115

  Robertson, Alec, 269

  Robertson, Dorothy, 210–12, 276

  Robertson, James 238

  Robertson, Margaret, 239

  Rochefort, Commander Joe, 108–9, 123, 134, 135, 137–8, 139–40, 141, 144, 277

  romaji, 20, 26, 34–5, 45, 69, 150, 235

  Romania, 3

  Rommel, Erwin von, 224

  Room, Thomas G., 81, 167, 261

  Room 14, 80, 106, 119

  Room 40, 20, 47

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 53, 74, 75, 89, 90, 93, 100

  Roscoe, N. K., 42–3, 50, 60

  Rosen, Lieutenant Leo, 73, 74–7

  Ross, Elizabeth, 205

  Rowlett, Frank B., 3, 6, 69–73, 97, 178, 277

  Royal Air Force, see Britain

  Royal Naval College, Greenwich, 63

  Royal Navy, see Britain

  New Zealand: Navy, 81, 198

  Royal Sovereign, HMS, 132

  Rozycki, Jerzy, 4

  Rusbridger, James: Betrayal at Pearl Harbor, 278

  Rushbrooke, Commodore Edmund, 156

  Rutland, Major Frederick, 32–3

  Ryukaku, 136

  Safford, Captain Laurance, 74, 143

  Saidor, 255

  Saigon, 12, 177, 189

  Saipan, 138, 260

  Salamaua, 184

  San Francisco, 150

  San Miguel, 266, 269, 271

  Sanderson, Sergeant Sandy, 192

  Sandford, Lieutenant-Colonel A. W. ‘Mic’, 166, 171, 186

  Sandison, Isobel, 215–216

  Sandridge, 223

  Santiago, 158

  Sarafand, 219

  Sasebo, 24

  Saunders, Commander Malcolm, 212–13

  Scarborough, 63, 84

  School of Oriental and African Studies, 119, 120, 122, 214, 215, 246

  Scotland Yard, 44

  Scott, Norman, 201, 203, 267–8

  Secret Intelligence Service, 32

  Secunderabad, 165

  Selatar, 12, 61

  Seligman, Commander Morton T., 142, 143

  Serangoon, 106

  Shaforce, 27

  Shakespeare, William, 69

  Shanghai, 22, 43, 44, 120

  Shanghai Army Intelligence Office, 27, 30

  Shaw, George Bernard: Major Barbara, 9–10

  Shaw, Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander Harry, 20, 22, 24, 29, 30–2, 33, 34, 36, 38–40, 43, 57, 66–7, 78, 81, 82, 105–6, 107, 119, 129, 132–3, 149, 152, 154, 226

  Shenley Road Camp, 188

  Sherr, Colonel Joe R., 166

  Shillong, 249

  Shimakaze, 262

  Shoho, 136, 137

  Shokaku, 134

  Siam, see Thailand Sibley, Brian, 223–4

  Signal Intelligence Service, 67, 68, 125, 136, 166, 231

  Silkin, Lieutenant John, 267

/>   Simla, 160, 161

  Simpson, Wallis, 50–1

  Sinclair, Admiral Hugh (‘C’, ‘Quex’), 15, 22, 33, 35, 44; buys Bletchley, 2, 55–6; character, 1–2; commercial codes, 57; death, 76; GC&CS, 19

  Singapore, 22, 98–9, 237, 268; cable traffic, 43, 44; Cathay Cinema, 9–10, 11; code-breaking, 6, 66, 79, 82, 92, 93, 164; complacency in, 10, 13; evacuated, 103–4, 106, 107, 133, 162, 164, 176, 192; evacuation to, 60–1, 62; fall of (1942), 9–13, 104, 106, 109, 265; Japanese spy network, 30–2, 33, 34

  Singora, 98

  Sinkov, Captain Abraham, 74–7, 111, 166, 167, 176, 177, 178, 179, 253, 261

  Sio, 252, 255

  Sittaungom, 247

  6 Wireless Unit, 262, 263, 266, 270, 271

  Slim, General Bill, 229, 230, 232, 241, 243–4, 247, 249, 250

  Smith, W. C., 161–3, 247

  Solomon Islands, 134, 157, 182, 185, 262

  Somerville, Admiral Sir James, 129, 130, 132, 149, 152, 153, 156, 227

  Soryu, 134, 141

  Soviet Union, 49; codes, 3, 17, 20, 37, 161; Japan and, 36; Manchuria, 274; threat, 4, 161

  Spain, 3

  Special Communications Unit, 242

  Special Intelligence Bureau, 80, 81, 110, 111, 112, 115, 171–2

  Special Liaison Unit, 241–2

  Special Wireless Companies, 249

  Special Wireless Groups, 249, 250

  Special Wireless Sections, 232

  Spencer, Geoff, 259

  Sprinks, Joan, 62–4, 82–4, 104, 132, 133

  staff shortages, 21, 36, 105, 119–21

  Stalin, Joseph, 86, 92, 272

  Statesman, 163

  Station 6, 82, 116, 166

  Station 8, 231

  Station AB, 24

  Station AL, 175

  Station X, see Bletchley Park

  stepping switches, 219–20

  Stevens, Lieutenant Geoffrey, 56, 82, 226

  Stewart, Lieutenant Ludovic, 238

  Stilwell, ‘Vinegar Joe’, 229–30

  Stimson, Henry, 5

  Stockgrove Park, 201

  Stockholm, 85

  Stonecutters Island, 37, 39, 40, 43, 56, 57, 61, 102

  Stony Stratford, 205

  Strachey, Oliver, 34, 45, 46

  Straits of Malacca, 104

  Stratemeyer, General, 244

  Stripp, Alan, 232–3

  strippers, 126, 194–207, 210, 221, 235

  submarines: British, 31; German, 151, 219, 225; Japanese, 124, 128, 175, 260; US, 256

  Suez Canal, 61

  Sujimura Yotaro, 51

  Sumatra, 109

  Sunda Strait, 104

  ‘Susan’, see Washington, DC

  Sussex, 105–6

  Sutherland, General, 169

  Suva, 198

  Svensson, Colonel, 122

  Sweden, 3

  Sweetland, Gladys, 187–9

  Sydney, HMAS, 21

  Sydney University, 81

  tabulating machines, 124, 125, 148, 178

  Tacloban, 262, 263, 264, 265

  Tactical Air Intelligence Section, 232, 249

  Tait, Captain Campbell, 33, 35

  Takoradi, 195

  Tanambogo, 157

  Tashkent, 161

  Taylor, Patrick, 201

  Taylor, Sergeant Trixie, 192

  Temporary Women Assistants, 104, 107, 119, 132–3, 195, 203

  Tenedos, HMS, 98, 130

  Terauchi Hisaichi, General Count, 95

  Thailand, 88, 94, 98

  Thari desert, 162

  Thatcher, Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander Dick, 38, 204, 275

  Thompson, Captain Ralph, 113

  3 Wireless Unit, 259

  355 Wireless Unit, 249

  357 Wireless Unit, 233

  358 Wireless Unit, 249

  367 Wireless Unit, 249

  368 Wireless Unit, 249

  370 Wireless Unit, 233

  Tientsin, 40, 41

  Tiltman, Captain John, 5, 40–1, 47, 54–5, 56, 58, 62, 75, 76, 79, 92, 119–21, 124, 145, 155, 157, 158–9, 160, 161, 176, 186, 196, 219, 224, 227, 236, 258, 278, 279

  Times, The, 89

  Timor, 113

  Tippett, Colonel Kenneth, 166

  Togo Shigenori, 272

  Tojo Hideki, General, 9, 85, 91, 93, 97, 106

  Tokyo Circular, 160, 191, 265, 272

  ‘Tokyo Express’, 157

  Tokyo, 10, 174

  Townend, Brian, 150, 175–6

  Townsville, 80, 81, 116, 168

  traffic analysis, 61, 93, 94, 96, 108, 143, 159, 167, 173, 174, 176, 184, 200, 210

  Travis, Commander Edward ‘Jumbo’, 119, 149, 151, 155, 204, 214, 228

  Trendall, Dale, 81, 172

  Trincomalee, 129, 130

  Tripartite Pact (1940), 65, 67, 73, 85

  Truk, 134, 136, 163, 174, 234, 255

  Truman, Harry S., 272, 273

  Tuck, Captain Oswald, 120–1, 194, 257

  Tulagi, 157

  Turing, Alan, 2, 76, 220

  Turkestan, 161

  Twining, Edward, 199, 226

  2 Wireless Unit, 259

  Type X cipher machines, 149, 165, 166, 195, 243

  Ukraine, 49

  UKUSA Accord, 6, 198

  Ultra, 182, 241–2, 244, 256, 262, 264, 272–3, 277

  Underwood, Dennis, 164–5, 248–9, 250–1

  United States of America: Air Force, 171, 181, 184, 255; Army, 173, 174, 225; Army-Navy rivalry, 5, 6; Black Chamber, 18; cables, 16; co-operation with Britain, 3, 6, 74–7, 124, 151–2, 153–4, 155, 169, 194, 197, 198, 218, 226, 269; FBI, 33, 150; Four Power Treaty, 28–9; Marines, 157, 184, 260; National Security Agency, 277, 279; Navy, 18, 100, 101, 137, 171, 260, 266; pinches, 174; sanctions against Japan, 89; security, 142; Senate, 16; State Department, 71; takes lead in cryptanalysis, 107; ‘upstart’, 4

  universities: recruitment from, 1, 120

  Vampire, HMS, 98, 129, 131

  Vella Lavella, 184

  Victoria, Queen, 48

  Vine-Stevens, Betty, 192

  Vint Hill Farms, 258

  VJ-Day, 275

  Vlasto, Alexis, 189, 191, 232, 237, 238, 246

  Wahiawa, 123, 138–9

  Wakde, 255, 257

  Wake Island, 109, 137

  Wall, Geoffrey ‘Septimus’, 205

  Waller, John, 38, 39

  Walshe, Keith, 172

  Wang Chow, 106

  Warspite, HMS, 132

  Washington Conference (1921), 18, 28, 30

  Washington Naval Treaty (1921), 97

  Washington Post, 134–5

  Washington Times Herald, 142

  Washington, DC: Munitions Building, 68, 72; ‘Susan’, 124, 222

  Watson (née Skipp), Rene, 13, 104

  Watson, John, 13

  Wau, 181, 184

  Wavendon House, 201

  Waves, 123

  weather messages, 95, 99, 100, 126, 174, 234, 258

  Webb, Lieutenant Norman, 102–3, 111, 167, 176, 180

  Weeks, Lieutenant Robert, 74–7

  Wenger, Commander Joseph, 155, 198

  Western Desert, 166, 181

  Western Union, 16

  Western Wireless Signal Centre, 163–4, 223, 231, 232

  Wewak, 181, 182, 254

  Whewell, Lieutenant Michael, 238

  Whitchurch, 223

  Wickham, J. V., 204

  Wiles, Christopher, 121

  Wiles, Maurice, 121, 122, 159–60, 189, 190, 193, 232

  Williams, Jack, 140

  Willoughby, General Charles, 167, 169

  Wilson, Angus, 200, 201, 210

  Winchell, Walter, 142

  Windsor Castle, 48

  Winelli, 113

  Wingate, Orde, 229–30

  Winnipeg, 223

  Winterbotham, Frederick, 242, 243–4; The Ultra Secret, 5

  Wireless Experimental Centre, Delhi, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 177, 186, 223, 230, 231, 232, 241, 245, 247, 242–3, 279
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  Woburn Abbey, 201, 210, 222

  Woburn Sands, 119

  Wolverton, 189

  Women's Army Corps, 261

  Women's Australian Auxiliary Air Force, 115, 116, 261

  Women's Auxiliary Air Force, 162, 231, 239, 240, 275

  Women's Auxiliary Corps, 162

  Women's Royal Australian Naval Service, 110–11

  Women's Royal Naval Service, 9–10, 11, 12–13, 62–4, 82–4, 105, 118, 194–5, 198, 200, 201, 203, 206, 209, 210, 211, 214, 220, 231, 238, 276

  Women's Services British India, 165

  worksheets, 126, 127–8, 202

  World War, First: codebreaking, 4, 14, 17, 34, 44, 57, 69

  Wright, Wesley ‘Ham’, 139, 140

  Wylie, Captain F. J., 80, 81

  Y Committee, 35

  Y Section, 83

  Y Section, Hong Kong, 37, 39, 40, 57, 61

  Y units, 266, 267

  Yale University, 123

  Yamamoto Isoruku, Admiral, 4, 85, 93, 95, 96, 137, 138, 139, 141, 182, 183–4, 255, 276, 277

  Yamashita Tomoyuki, 265, 266

  Yamato, 267

  Yangtze River, 53

  Yardley, Herbert, 18

  Yokosuka, 24

  Yorktown, USS, 135–6, 141, 260

  Yoshihito, Emperor, 25

  Yoshimo Maru, 256

  Young Men's Malayan League (KAME), 94

  Yoxall, Leslie, 220

  Zuikaku, 134

  Zygalski, Henryk, 4

 

 

 


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