Lunchtime Lecture: Joe Rochefort’s War – The Odyssey of the Codebreaker who outwitted Yamamoto at Midway with author Elliot Carlson
National Museum of the United States Navy Washington Navy Yard, WashingtonElliot Carlson’s biography of Capt. Joe Rochefort is the first to be written about the officer who headed Station Hypo, the U.S. Navy’s signals monitoring and cryptographic intelligence unit at Pearl Harbor, and who broke the Japanese navy’s code before the Battle of Midway. The book brings Rochefort to life as the irreverent, fiercely independent,