May 06,  ·  CDR Joe Rochefort and his team received the bulk of their intercepts from one such listening post in Heeia, on the windward side of the island, and locational data from a DF station in Lualualei.  Much work was required to turn the raw data from Heeia and Lualualei into intelligence that was operationally relevant.

Jun 04,  · Posts about walter lord written by padresteve. The unsuspecting Japanese were finally alerted to the presence of nearly 60 SBD 3 and 4 Dauntless Dive Bombers when lookouts screamed “helldivers.”Wade McClusky’s aircraft lined up over the Akagi and Kaga pushing into their dives at There was a bit of confusion when the bulk of Scouting 6 joined the attack .

Turning point of the pacific war, the Yorktown was sunk, CDR Joseph Rochefort and staff could make educated guesses of the JN (Japanese operational code), and predict their next moves. Guadalcanal Nov

Midway Mfg. Co. v. Dirkschneider, F. Supp. (D. Neb. ) case opinion from the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska.

For example you may choose Admiral Nimitz, the overall commander, CDR Joe Rochefort whose team broke the Japanese Naval code, LCDR John Waldron, who led torpedo squadron VT-6, CDR Wade McClusky who led the successful drive bombing attack against the Japanese carriers, or any other participant who you feel meets your definition of leadership.

Dec 01,  · In the ensuing Japanese attack on Midway beginning at AM, 14 of the 21 Brewster fighter pilots died prompting Captain Philip R. White to say, “It is my belief that any commander that orders pilots out for combat in F2A-3’s (Brewster Buffalo) should consider them lost before leaving the ground”.

Jul 06,  · 11 April Seventy-one years ago LIFE MAGAZINE told the story of Ensign George Gay, the only survivor of Torpedo Squadron EIGHT’s attack on the Japanese striking force at the Battle of Midway. His squadron’s heroism had a lifelong effect on this twelve year old boy growing up in the cornfields of Illinois.

Fairness alert: “The honors for breaking JN were properly shared. Of the vital messages broken in advance of Midway, 49 were read simultaneously by both stations, 26 by Hypo only, and 35 by Washington only. But when it came to drawing the correct conclusions from those messages, HYPO won hands down.