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Joseph John Rochefort (May 12, 1900 – July 20, 1976) was an American naval officer and cryptanalyst. He was a major figure in the United States Navy 's cryptographic and intelligence operations from 1925 to 1946, particularly in the Battle of Midway .
Dec 19, 2022 · Joseph Rochefort, cryptanalyst, linguist, and Navy captain was at the epicentre of the US code-breaking efforts for over twenty years. As head of World War II code-breaking unit, Station HYPO in Hawaii, he was instrumental in the pivotal US victory at the Battle of Midway.
Commander Joseph J. Rochefort. 12 May 1900–20 July 1976. Joseph J. Rochefort, shown here as a lieutenant, on 15 September 1934 (NH 64844). Rochefort was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1898 and...
Jan 26, 2024 · Joe Rochefort: Unsung Hero of World War II. This article appears in: June 2022. Eighty years ago this month, the U.S. Navy inflicted the decisive defeat of World War II in the Pacific against the marauding Japanese.
Captain Joseph John Rochefort was a major figure in the U.S. Navy's cryptologic and intelligence developments from 1925 to 1947. He headed the Navy's fledgling cryptanalytic organization in the 1920s and provided singularly superb cryptologic support to the U.S. fleet during World War II, leading to victory in the war in the Pacific.
Dec 7, 2011 · Rochefort, responsible for the Pacific Fleet's radio intelligence unit at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, felt immense guilt at his failure to...
Elliot Carlson’s award-winning biography of Capt. Joe Rochefort is the first to be written about the officer who headed Station Hypo, the U.S. Navy’s signals monitoring and cryptographic intelligence unit at Pearl Harbor, and who broke the Japanese navy’s code before the Battle of Midway.
