The work that Ann Caracristi and Wilma Berryman were doing enabled U.S. military intelligence to construct what is called the order of battle: an accounting of the strength, equipment, kind, location, and disposition of Japanese Army troops. They were able to pinpoint where the enemy was quartered and headed. Soon “MacArthur’s headquarters had as good a picture of the Japanese military set-up as he had of his own,” as Solomon Kullback put it.
