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The History of WWII Podcast

Episode 243-The Aleutian Islands Campaign

The History of WWII Podcast

Ray Harris Jr

History, Society & Culture, Education

4.44.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Adm. Yamamoto wants to occupy the Midway Islands, but first needs to confuse his opponent Adm. Chester Nimitz with a diversionary attack on the Aleutian Islands. The attack on Midway does not go according to plan, but neither does the defense of Dutch Harbor, Attu or Kiska. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Did you know choosing the train over your car can cut your carbon footprint by up to two thirds?

0:06.0

So, one family outing at a time, one little adventurer at a time, one trip to the museum, one dinner in the city, one nap on the way home at a time.

0:18.0

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0:23.0

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0:30.0

My childhood in a nutshell, well it all started in Northampton in the 80s.

0:36.0

I didn't even know I was in the closet but I did find George Mikel in there.

0:41.0

My dad was the manager of the local football club, but the only thing I was tackling was a good act of a Christie.

0:47.0

I don't know why I'm telling you about it. They've only gone and turned it into a serious.

0:51.0

So do yourself a favour and watch my awkward years in glorious technicala, changing end stream free on ITVX. Comedy is back in the building.

1:00.0

Hello everyone, right here. So a few weeks ago I was contacted by Caleb Walker, who has a new podcast, Lifestyles.

1:09.0

That's Life with a Why. Caleb is a young man who is trying to figure out life and his podcast reflects that.

1:17.0

As his podcast has a very open format, he asked if we could talk about the illusion campaign of World War II.

1:24.0

As it started relatively soon after Pearl Harbor and can be treated as a standalone subject, I said yes and we had a nice conversation about it.

1:34.0

And since I had done all that reading, well, here's the illusion campaign.

1:41.0

Hello and thank you for listening to the history of World War II podcast, Episode 243, The Illusion Islands campaign.

2:00.0

It was deep in the basement in the old administration building, or number one building, at the Pearl Harbor Navy shipyard, just south of Battleship Road.

2:10.0

There was a room that very few people were allowed to enter. This was Station Hypo, otherwise known as Fleet Radio Unit Pacific.

2:20.0

Hypo was the US Navy signals monitoring and cryptographic intelligence unit.

2:26.0

The crypt analysts that worked in the basement were called crypties, and it was their job to take the 500 to 1000 messages that came in each day from the various listening posts.

2:38.0

Station in places like Guam, Indochina, Thailand, Wake Island, Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore, Malaya, Java, and Burma, and try to glean useful information from what parts of those messages could be deciphered.

2:55.0

The man in charge of this setup for Naval Intelligence was Lieutenant Commander Joseph J. Rochford.

3:02.0

Rochford had spent three years in Japan learning the language, and now it was his job to listen in on Japanese naval military signals, as well as to identify strategic targets within Japan's electrical power network, just in case War broke out between the two countries,

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