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

McCormack hopes to create “the whole picture of Japanese shipping and water-born trade.” This is done in due course; American submarines and aviators succeed in sinking Japanese merchant ships beyond the wildest expectations of the Pentagon. McCormack predicts that within a year, by 1944, his staff will have “pretty well reconstructed the economic and political aspects of the [Far Eastern picture] and be able to make increasingly accurate diagnoses of Japanese capabilities, difficulties and plans.”