Joe Rochefort's War

Elliot Carlsons award-winning biography of Capt. Joe Rochefort is the first to be written about the officer who headed Station Hypo, the U.S. Navys signals monitoring and cryptographic intelligence unit at Pearl Harbor, and who broke the Japanese navys code before the Battle of Midway. His conclusions, bitterly opposed by some top Navy brass, are credited with making the U.S. victory possible and helping to change the course of the war. The author tells the story of how opponents in Washington forced Rocheforts removal from Station Hypo and denied him the Distinguished Service Medal recommended by Admiral Nimitz.