[LINK] (FWD) telegraph: US 'stole credit for cracking Pacific war code'

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=003413427358635&rtmo=aq54aK9J&atmo=rrrrrrvs&pg=/et/00/9/6/ncode06.html

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   THE long-held belief that America played the dominant role in
cracking
   vital Japanese codes during the Second World War has been
challenged
   by a book that awards most of the credit to the British and
   Australians.

   ...

   The "true heroes" of the Allied codebreaking effort, Smith says,
were
   Eric Nave, an Australian officer attached to the Royal Navy, and
John
   Tiltman, a British cryptographer.

   Although the Americans claimed that they broke JN25, the Japanese
   navy's operational code which contributed to the destruction of the
   Japanese carrier fleet at Midway, it was the work of Tiltman - only
a
   few weeks after it came into use in 1939.

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