Marching Orders: The Untold Story of How the American Breaking of the Japanese Secret Codes Led to the Defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan

by Bruce Lee

Syria, Abyssinia, Italian Somaliland, Madagascar, Rumania, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and all of Russia from within 30 miles of Moscow southward including the Crimea. For its part, Japan had invaded and occupied the following: Manchuria, Korea, all of northeast China, Formosa, Hong Kong, the Philippine Islands, French Indo-China (later to be called Vietnam), Malaya, Burma, Thailand, Sumatra, Borneo, New Guinea. In simple terms this meant that Japan controlled nearly one-quarter of the world’s population at the time.