Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "RETREAT | Operation Crusader Part 14" video.

  1. Eric Nave, had totally broken IJN signals by 1923 -- and never 'let go.' He was seconded from Australia to GCHQ in London, ultimately. Churchill KNEW that the IJN was committed to Pearl Harbor. The attack fleet couldn't stay off the air waves -- contrary to the popular histories kicked around. Read "Betrayal at Pearl Harbor"... ISBN 0-671-70805-8 or ISBN 0-671-79231-8 -- paperback version. Nave was the Inside Man within GCHQ who had broken the IJN code -- SOLO. (He had been stationed aboard IJN ships when the Emperor died. This caused every ship in the fleet to receive the exact same plain text in variations of encoding. Whoops! This ability to match plain text to encrypted text is what caused the British to crack American cyphers -- and vice versa. Which is why they decided to get married, instead.) Echelon, Five Eyes, etc. It was this back-bone traffic that the Falcon divulged to the GRU -- not the KGB. Pop history can't get much right.
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  2. Read Day of Deceit and Betrayal at Pearl Habor. The IJN couldn't stay off the radio.
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