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Japanese Code Breakers - A History of Japan
In 19 forty one there were no satellites in the sky, peering down and taking high resolution photographs of individual cars. This meant that when the japanese set sail for hawaii, they had no idea whether the fleet was going to be there when they got there. And two, it made the reliance on the spy even greater. They needed his eyes to see what they were sailing toward. He provided essential information about the status of the fleet. But if american s had decoded that message in time and gotten suspicious about the nature of this surprise, history might tell a different story.
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