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

In mid-June, the Berlin-Tokyo traffic reveals that Germany and Japan are concluding an agreement to supply each other with essential products under the terms of a “war-time economic agreement.” The material will be transported by seven German ships, four of which are already in Japan and three of which “will reach Japan soon.” In the commodities that are to be sent Germany will be 65,000 kilo tons of crude rubber, 10,000 tons of tin, 164,000 tons of oil products, manganese, quinine, opium, antimony, ferromolybdenum, molybdenum ore, asbestos, industrial diamonds, etc., for a total of 250,000 kilo tons. In