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Station HYPO: Breaking the Japanese Code
Lecture no. 5 from the course: World War II: The Pacific Theater
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Taught by Professor Craig L. Symonds | 28 min | Categories: History
Codebreaking is one of the most captivating stories in World War II, both in Europe and the Pacific. While the British were breaking German codes, Americans stationed in Hawaii wrestled with Japanese intercepts. See what they were able to decipher, and how even partial codebreaking contributed to success in battle.
24 Lectures
1
The Road to War in the Pacific, 1931–1941
0
of 33 min
2
Infamy! The Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor
0
of 32 min
3
Japan Moves South, December 1941–May 1942
0
of 31 min
4
The Doolittle Raid on Japan, April 1942
0
of 29 min
5
Station HYPO: Breaking the Japanese Code
0
of 28 min
6
Battle of the Coral Sea, May 1942
0
of 30 min
7
Midway: 10 Minutes That Changed the War
0
of 32 min
8
Guadalcanal: Jungle Warfare
0
of 32 min
9
Ironbottom Sound, 1942–1943
0
of 31 min
10
MacArthur, Halsey, and Operation Cartwheel
0
of 33 min
11
The Big Blue Fleet and American Industry
0
of 31 min
12
Battle for Tarawa: A Square Mile of Hell
0
of 32 min
13
A Three-Front Pacific War, January–May 1944
0
of 33 min
14
The US Leaps to the Marianas, June 1944
0
of 32 min
15
Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 1944
0
of 30 min
16
Bombing Japan: Fire from the Sky
0
of 30 min
17
American Submarines in the Pacific, 1944–1945
0
of 32 min
18
MacArthur Returns to the Philippines
0
of 30 min
19
Battle of Leyte Gulf, October 1944
0
of 32 min
20
Admiral Halsey’s Typhoons, 1944–1945
0
of 30 min
21
Battle for Iwo Jima, February–March 1945
0
of 30 min
22
Battle for Okinawa, April–June 1945
0
of 31 min
23
Kamikazes: Japan’s Special Attack Units
0
of 31 min
24
Dropping the Atomic Bomb
0
of 34 min
