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Show DALE H. WEST June 23, 2000 Japanese messages, but all in Morse code. Then they sent me up tcri can't remember the sequence anymore-but they sent me up to Manila. That was after MacArthur had taken it. Then I went to San Miguel, a little city next to Baguio, where I worked with the Australians who had been working with Japanese codes for sometime. I was up there for a couple of weeks, two of us were. Then we came back and set up the machinery to do the operations. You can follow that-my movements listed on the map-one, two, three, four, five, an<J I think it tells you where I went from one to the other, including going to Palawan to set up a direction fmding unit. WIN: Now, when you say set up a direction finding unit, explain exactly what you were doing. Were you intercepting Japanese messages and translating them? Is that the purpose of your operation? DAL: The Japanese had a code that was in numbers. And when we found out the process, we moved ahead fast. The Japanese would, say, take 2-9-1, which may be EK, which is air raid on. And then that code system might add 5-7~2. Well, that 2-plus 1 would be 3, and 9 plus 7 would be 16, giving 6and 2, plus 5 would be 7. So we found out that they wouldn't carry any number. We got along quite well. If we got three with the same code we could decode it. If we got two, we often coul~. Toward the end they could not get their codes out to their distant people, so they would have to send the messages in the clear. We were very much aware, and knew a great deal. For example, we knew how many planes in flight. We knew that colonel so and so would be aboard a plane and wanted eggs for breakfast; things like that. We had a connection directly with the 13th Air Force headquarters. We would send the 14 |
