| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 767 .D66 1992 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
17922 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 0700605762 (softbound)
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - D 767
- Item number - .D66 1992
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
- Classification number - 940.54/26
- Edition number - 20
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Drea, Edward J.,
- Dates associated with a name - 1944-
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| Title Statement |
- Title - MacArthur's ULTRA :
- Remainder of title - codebreaking and the war against Japan, 1942-1945 /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Edward J. Drea.
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Lawrence, Kan. :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - University Press of Kansas,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1992.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - xv, 296 p. :
- Other physical details - ill., maps ;
- Dimensions - 24 cm.
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| Media Type |
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| Carrier Type |
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| Series Statement/title |
- Title - Modern war studies
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
- Bibliography, etc - Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-282) and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
- Formatted contents note - MacArthur's codebreaking organization -- ULTRA's trials and errors, 1942 -- Breaking into the Japanese Army codes, January 1943-January 1944 -- ULTRA's great victory : the Hollandia Operation, January-April 1944 -- Misreading ULTRA, May-September 1944 -- The missing division : Leyte, 1944 -- The numbers game : Luzon, January-June 1945 -- ULTRA as seer : uncovering Japanese plans for homeland defense, June-August 1945 -- Conclusion -- FIGURES: A sample page from the Japanese Army Code Book -- A typical Japanese Army message enciphered for transmission -- The Mainline Radio Network, Imperial General Headquarters -- The Japanese Army message in Figure 1.2 transmitted in Morse Code -- Abbreviated Army Chain of Command -- PHOTOGRAPHS: Willoughby visits Akin's headquarters, Bataan, 1942 -- The first American cryptanalysts in front of the Henry Street headquarters of Central Bureau, 1943 -- B-25s attack a Japanese transport during the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, 1943 -- Blamey visits the codebreakers at Twenty-One Henry Street, 1943 -- Planning the leap to Hollandia, 1944 -- Members of Central Bureau's Hut 7, 1944 -- Listening to the enemy--radio intercept operators of the 126th Signal Radio Intelligence Company, mid-1944 -- The underground radio communications center of 86th Division Headquarters near Ariake Bay in southern Kyushu -- A representative of each of the services at Central Bureau, 1945 -- MAPS: The Pacific Areas -- Papua New Guinea operations -- Southwest Pacific Actions, January-October 1943 -- CARTWHEEL Operations, October 1943-February 1944 -- Anticipated and actual Allied landings, April 1944 -- Allied landings, New Guinea, April-May 1944 -- Leyte -- Luzon operations -- Disposition of Forces, Kyushu -- TABLES: Japanese units identified by SWPA in the Southwest Pacific, December 31, 1942 -- U.S. Army Intelligence estimate of Japanese forces in the Southwest Pacific, December 31, 1942 -- ULTRA-identified Japanese Air Units at Wewak, August 1943 -- Estimated and actual Japanese Ground Order of Battle...
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - "In this book I assess the relationship between special intelligence and the campaigns of General Douglas MacArthur in the Pacific. During World War II, special intelligence, commonly referred to as ULTRA today, meant information obtained through monitoring, intercepting, and decoding enemy radio communications." - From the Preface
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - MacArthur, Douglas,
- Dates associated with a name - 1880-1964
- General subdivision - Military leadership.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Campaigns
- Geographic subdivision - Pacific Area.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Cryptography.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Military intelligence
- Geographic subdivision - Pacific Area.
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| Subject Geographic Name |
- Geographic name - Pacific Area
- General subdivision - History.
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