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

The British are running rings around the Americans. And the error committed by the U.S. Army in failing to inform the civilian authorities about potential postwar planning (or is it the error of the Roosevelt administration not to consider these issues sooner for itself?) is exposed when Roosevelt first learns about RANKIN.5 This he does while en route to the Cairo conference aboard the battleship USS Iowa at 3 P.M. on November 19, 1943. The occasion is a meeting between the President and his Chiefs of Staff that is held in Admiral King’s stateroom. The subject is brought up as the third topic to be discussed concerning the possibility that there might be an overall collapse of the