Battle of Midway June 1942 June 4th - June 7th

[SeaQuest_]

Interesting story about a press leak and the Battle of Midway

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/06/05/unsealed-75-years-after-the-battle-of-midway-new-details-of-a-critical-wwii-press-leak/?utm_term=.2ff481efe772

[SuperNikoPower]

This was an awesome read. The reason it remained sealed for so long was interesting as well. The phrase, "the Americans were lying in wait", make me wonder how they came about the plan. 

[AVR_Project]

OPSEC...   COMSEC...   Who needs it?

 

[USMC2145]

Very good read +1

[SeaQuest_]

This was an awesome read. The reason it remained sealed for so long was interesting as well. The phrase, "the Americans were lying in wait", make me wonder how they came about the plan. 

I also wonder about that. 

[Wombatmetal]

Was an okay read. Good for what was covered, what it did not cover is that we continued to gain operational intelligence for sometime using the cracked code.

 

And the fact that since all Japanese Americans were interred no word could make it back to Japan.

 

Interesting but could be better

[Goodwood_Alpha]

It's a little bit click-baity for sure, and to be quite honest I can perfectly understand why the Navy and the Roosevelt administration were pissed and sought prosecution. That was an extraordinarily dumb thing to do by the press in wartime, no matter the circumstances.

 

Loose lips sink ships, after all.

[TheOssifrage]

Risky business. Makes you wonder what the media (or the US government) is going to leak in the future.

[crzyhawk]

It's a little bit click-baity for sure, and to be quite honest I can perfectly understand why the Navy and the Roosevelt administration were pissed and sought prosecution. That was an extraordinarily dumb thing to do by the press in wartime, no matter the circumstances.

 

Loose lips sink ships, after all.

 

When you consider that they nearly court-martialed Capt Gallery of the Guadalcanal for capturing rather than sinking the U-505 because it would have compromised the fact that the German naval ciphers were compromised, had the Germans suspected that the USN had the boat intact...

 

Yeah the fact that the USN had such detailed information as to the IJN's location, timing and order of battle...the only way the USN could have gotten that precise information is SIGINT.

[Bill_Halsey]

 

When you consider that they nearly court-martialed Capt Gallery of the Guadalcanal for capturing rather than sinking the U-505 because it would have compromised the fact that the German naval ciphers were compromised, had the Germans suspected that the USN had the boat intact...

 

Yeah the fact that the USN had such detailed information as to the IJN's location, timing and order of battle...the only way the USN could have gotten that precise information is SIGINT.

 

Short of a spy inside the Naval or Imperial General Staff, what's the other ways were there?

[SullyQuindarius]

Cool read. I actually just read about that incident last week lol.