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George McGinnis, an early member of the U.S. Naval Cryptologic Veterans Association, spent years researching and compiling histories of U.S. Navy cryptology into a single volume that was published in 1996. Difficult to find, and unavailable on major sites like Amazon UK and Amazon.com!

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This spectacular, oversized hardbound volume on high quality paper provides a comprehensive history of Naval cryptology from WW I to modern times. It features stories about decoding various Japanese naval systems and the Purple machine used for diplomatic communications. Work on the German Enigma cipher machine is also described with an extensive explanation of how the bombe was used to recover rotor settings, which made it possible to decrypt secret high level German communications.

A section, The Early Years, traces the early days of the Navy’s interest in radio intelligence and highlights the role of luminaries such as Russel Wilson, Agnes Driscoll, Laurence Safford, Edward Hebern, J.N. Wenger, Joseph J. Rochfort, Thomas H. Dyer, Jack S. Holtwick, Prescott Currier, Eunice Willson, Wesley A. Wright, Albert J. Pelletier, Robert H. Weeks, and many others.

Another section, Stories About Our Profession, includes articles on Traffic Analysis, Cryptography-Target Japan, and The First United States Contact With the British COMINT Organisation by Prescott Currier, which has not been previously published. Waves in the The Naval Security Group During WWII, which describes their work on the bombes. U.S. Marine Corps in COMINT, Direct Support Units tells of the challenging work of radio intelligence units aboard flagships of the fleet. The Japanese Cipher Machines discusses the Red, Purple, and Jade machines. Some Observations about the German Enigma and its Analysis by Joseph J. Eachus, which has not been previously published, is a detailed review of the Enigma and how the bombe works, plus many other fascinating articles.

Throughout this excellent volume are almost 100 photographs of people, places, cipher machines, and other pictures related to the articles. Even the front and back endpapers are striking. The front papers have illustrations of seven intercepted Japanese messages; the back papers feature an etching of Naval Security Group Command Headquarters on Nebraska Avenue in Washington, D.C. and some intercept sites.

208 page hardcover published 1996

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