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Post by EXO on Apr 15, 2021 14:18:03 GMT 8
The history of Corregidor is much more than the presence of the Coast Artillery. It was the American heart of radio traffic interception in the region, and the men of Station C in the tunnel at Monkey Point kept themselves to themselves. The burden of producing a current running estimate of Japanese Naval dispositions in the area fell upon the four traffic analysts there, headed by C. J. Johns. Duane Whitlock was one of those analysts, and about three months before Pearl Harbor his group compiled an order of battle from Japanese Navy communications and submitted it to the Commander in Chief Asiatic Fleet, who decided to forward it to Washington. The Commander in Chief's endorsement, written by LCDR (Later Rear Admiral) Rosey Mason construed the Japanese organization as thus presented to constitute a definite wartime disposition. The Silent War Against the Japanese Navy is Captain Whitlock's recollection of those times.
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