Mussolini, Benito, 51, 53, 86
Myitkyina, 229
Nagano Osami, Admiral, 96
Nagasaki, 273
Nagumo Chuichi, Admiral, 129, 130, 134, 138
Nairobi, 195
Nanking, 53
Nave (née Gray), Helena, 62
Nave, Paymaster Lieutenant Eric, 5, 21–30, 32–6, 38, 43, 57, 58, 62, 80, 93, 100–1, 110–12, 115, 142, 148, 151, 152, 167–9, 171–2, 220, 234, 257, 259–61, 263, 270, 271, 278
Nazdab, 255
Nestor, SS, 64
New Bradwell, 147
New Britain, 134, 157
New Georgia, 184
New Guinea, 116, 134, 157, 170, 171, 172, 174, 181, 182, 184, 252, 254, 255, 256, 260, 262
New Ireland, 163
New Mexico Desert, 273
New York Daily Mirror, 142
New Zealand, 61, 79, 82, 199
Newcastle, HMS, 132
Newman, Commander Jack, 80, 110, 148
Newport Pagnell, 190
Newton-John, Brin, 238–9
Nigeria, 162
Nilgiri Hills, 251
Nimitz, Admiral Chester W., 134, 135, 140, 141–2, 144, 255, 277
No. 1 Wireless Unit, 174, 255
Noemfor, 257
Normandy, 224–5
North China Signals Section, 40, 41
Northampton, 60
Noyce, Wilfrid, 175, 180, 231, 279
O'Connor, Colonel Tim, 226
Official Secrets Act, 16, 31, 204, 211, 221, 275, 276
Okinawa, 266, 267, 268, 269, 272
Oliver, Roland, 159–60 ‘On the Roof Gang’, 123
1 Wireless Unit (RAAF), 262
Ootacamund, 251
Op-20-G, 74, 92, 106, 109, 123, 134, 138, 143, 148, 149, 151, 155, 171, 182, 197, 198, 199, 213, 214, 218, 220, 226, 226–7, 228, 247, 269, 278
Orange, see codes and ciphers: Japanese Ormoc, 262
Ortlan, 175
Oshima Hiroshi, 48–9, 73, 76, 86–8, 91–2, 88, 90, 91, 94, 97–8, 99, 106, 223, 224
Ottawa, 199
Overlord, Operation, 223
Owen Stanley Range, 173, 184
Oxford University, 1, 41, 120, 175, 201, 205, 216, 223, 231, 246
Palau, 163, 184
Palestine, 219
Panama Canal, 61
Pan-American Airways, 82
paraphrasing, 192
Parkin, Don, 192
Parlett, Harold, 21, 22, 27, 29, 41
Pas de Calais, 223, 224–5
Patani, 98
Pearl Harbor: Japanese attack, 96, 100–1, 106, 120, 123, 129, 278; see also FRUPAC and Hypo
Peking, 40, 53
Pellow, Margaret, 239
Pembroke College, Ceylon, 105, 125–31
Penang, 101–2, 128
Peradeniya, 242
Petrides, Anne, 200–1
Philippine Guerrilla Army, 271
Philippines, 78, 82, 91, 96, 100, 101, 109, 166, 168, 172, 229, 259, 262, 263, 265, 268, 269, 271
Philippines Sea, 255
Philpott, Lieutenant, 198
Phoney War, 2
Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing: Gay Lord Quex, 1
Pitman, Robert, 236
Plumb, Sir John, 200, 215
Point Cook, 115, 116
Point Grey, Vancouver, 223, 226
Poland: codebreakers, 3–4; Germany invades, 73
Port Moresby, 134, 135, 136, 172, 181, 255, 260; see also 55
Wireless Section Portsmouth Signal School, 35
Portugal, 3
Post Office, 15
Potsdam Conference, 272, 273
preambles, 210
Prescott, 79
Prince of Wales, HMS, 98, 101
prisoners of war, British, 13, 102, 159, 250, 276
Procedure Y, 23
Public Record Office, 5
punch cards, see computers and rapid analytical machinery
Purple, see codes and ciphers: Japanese
Putt, Gorley, 200
‘Quex’, see Sinclair, Admiral Hugh
Rabaul, 112, 134, 157, 163, 174, 182, 184, 185, 234
Radio Intelligence Unit, 136
radio-fingerprinting, 84, 93, 94, 198
RAGFOR, 264
Rajputana, 162
Ramjas College, 161–2
Rangoon, 161, 177, 189, 245, 250, 251, 268
Rangoon River, 250
Rastenberg, 90, 97
Ratcliffe, Dorothy, 165–6
Rattler, 220
Raven, Lieutenant-Commander Francis A., 218, 278–9
Rawalpindi, 165
Red, see codes and ciphers: Japanese Red papers, 52
Redman, Commander John, 143–4
Redman, Rear Admiral Joseph, 143–4, 198, 217, 218, 228
Rejewski, Marian, 4
Repulse, HMS, 98, 101
Reuters, 43
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 48, 51, 73, 87, 91, 98
Richard, Joseph E., 167–8, 171, 176–80, 186, 189, 252–3, 256–7, 279
Richardson, Lieutenant-Commander Gill, 183
Richmond Park, 33
Roberts, Joy, 114, 115
Robertson, Alec, 269
Robertson, Dorothy, 210–12, 276
Robertson, James 238
Robertson, Margaret, 239
Rochefort, Commander Joe, 108–9, 123, 134, 135, 137–8, 139–40, 141, 144, 277
romaji, 20, 26, 34–5, 45, 69, 150, 235
Romania, 3
Rommel, Erwin von, 224
Room, Thomas G., 81, 167, 261
Room 14, 80, 106, 119
Room 40, 20, 47
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 53, 74, 75, 89, 90, 93, 100
Roscoe, N. K., 42–3, 50, 60
Rosen, Lieutenant Leo, 73, 74–7
Ross, Elizabeth, 205
Rowlett, Frank B., 3, 6, 69–73, 97, 178, 277
Royal Air Force, see Britain
Royal Naval College, Greenwich, 63
Royal Navy, see Britain
New Zealand: Navy, 81, 198
Royal Sovereign, HMS, 132
Rozycki, Jerzy, 4
Rusbridger, James: Betrayal at Pearl Harbor, 278
Rushbrooke, Commodore Edmund, 156
Rutland, Major Frederick, 32–3
Ryukaku, 136
Safford, Captain Laurance, 74, 143
Saidor, 255
Saigon, 12, 177, 189
Saipan, 138, 260
Salamaua, 184
San Francisco, 150
San Miguel, 266, 269, 271
Sanderson, Sergeant Sandy, 192
Sandford, Lieutenant-Colonel A. W. ‘Mic’, 166, 171, 186
Sandison, Isobel, 215–216
Sandridge, 223
Santiago, 158
Sarafand, 219
Sasebo, 24
Saunders, Commander Malcolm, 212–13
Scarborough, 63, 84
School of Oriental and African Studies, 119, 120, 122, 214, 215, 246
Scotland Yard, 44
Scott, Norman, 201, 203, 267–8
Secret Intelligence Service, 32
Secunderabad, 165
Selatar, 12, 61
Seligman, Commander Morton T., 142, 143
Serangoon, 106
Shaforce, 27
Shakespeare, William, 69
Shanghai, 22, 43, 44, 120
Shanghai Army Intelligence Office, 27, 30
Shaw, George Bernard: Major Barbara, 9–10
Shaw, Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander Harry, 20, 22, 24, 29, 30–2, 33, 34, 36, 38–40, 43, 57, 66–7, 78, 81, 82, 105–6, 107, 119, 129, 132–3, 149, 152, 154, 226
Shenley Road Camp, 188
Sherr, Colonel Joe R., 166
Shillong, 249
Shimakaze, 262
Shoho, 136, 137
Shokaku, 134
Siam, see Thailand Sibley, Brian, 223–4
Signal Intelligence Service, 67, 68, 125, 136, 166, 231
Silkin, Lieutenant John, 267
Simla, 160, 161
Simpson, Wallis, 50–1
Sinclair, Admiral Hugh (‘C’, ‘Quex’), 15, 22, 33, 35, 44; buys Bletchley, 2, 55–6; character, 1–2; commercial codes, 57; death, 76; GC&CS, 19
Singapore, 22, 98–9, 237, 268; cable traffic, 43, 44; Cathay Cinema, 9–10, 11; code-breaking, 6, 66, 79, 82, 92, 93, 164; complacency in, 10, 13; evacuated, 103–4, 106, 107, 133, 162, 164, 176, 192; evacuation to, 60–1, 62; fall of (1942), 9–13, 104, 106, 109, 265; Japanese spy network, 30–2, 33, 34
Singora, 98
Sinkov, Captain Abraham, 74–7, 111, 166, 167, 176, 177, 178, 179, 253, 261
Sio, 252, 255
Sittaungom, 247
6 Wireless Unit, 262, 263, 266, 270, 271
Slim, General Bill, 229, 230, 232, 241, 243–4, 247, 249, 250
Smith, W. C., 161–3, 247
Solomon Islands, 134, 157, 182, 185, 262
Somerville, Admiral Sir James, 129, 130, 132, 149, 152, 153, 156, 227
Soryu, 134, 141
Soviet Union, 49; codes, 3, 17, 20, 37, 161; Japan and, 36; Manchuria, 274; threat, 4, 161
Spain, 3
Special Communications Unit, 242
Special Intelligence Bureau, 80, 81, 110, 111, 112, 115, 171–2
Special Liaison Unit, 241–2
Special Wireless Companies, 249
Special Wireless Groups, 249, 250
Special Wireless Sections, 232
Spencer, Geoff, 259
Sprinks, Joan, 62–4, 82–4, 104, 132, 133
staff shortages, 21, 36, 105, 119–21
Stalin, Joseph, 86, 92, 272
Statesman, 163
Station 6, 82, 116, 166
Station 8, 231
Station AB, 24
Station AL, 175
Station X, see Bletchley Park
stepping switches, 219–20
Stevens, Lieutenant Geoffrey, 56, 82, 226
Stewart, Lieutenant Ludovic, 238
Stilwell, ‘Vinegar Joe’, 229–30
Stimson, Henry, 5
Stockgrove Park, 201
Stockholm, 85
Stonecutters Island, 37, 39, 40, 43, 56, 57, 61, 102
Stony Stratford, 205
Strachey, Oliver, 34, 45, 46
Straits of Malacca, 104
Stratemeyer, General, 244
Stripp, Alan, 232–3
strippers, 126, 194–207, 210, 221, 235
submarines: British, 31; German, 151, 219, 225; Japanese, 124, 128, 175, 260; US, 256
Suez Canal, 61
Sujimura Yotaro, 51
Sumatra, 109
Sunda Strait, 104
‘Susan’, see Washington, DC
Sussex, 105–6
Sutherland, General, 169
Suva, 198
Svensson, Colonel, 122
Sweden, 3
Sweetland, Gladys, 187–9
Sydney, HMAS, 21
Sydney University, 81
tabulating machines, 124, 125, 148, 178
Tacloban, 262, 263, 264, 265
Tactical Air Intelligence Section, 232, 249
Tait, Captain Campbell, 33, 35
Takoradi, 195
Tanambogo, 157
Tashkent, 161
Taylor, Patrick, 201
Taylor, Sergeant Trixie, 192
Temporary Women Assistants, 104, 107, 119, 132–3, 195, 203
Tenedos, HMS, 98, 130
Terauchi Hisaichi, General Count, 95
Thailand, 88, 94, 98
Thari desert, 162
Thatcher, Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander Dick, 38, 204, 275
Thompson, Captain Ralph, 113
3 Wireless Unit, 259
355 Wireless Unit, 249
357 Wireless Unit, 233
358 Wireless Unit, 249
367 Wireless Unit, 249
368 Wireless Unit, 249
370 Wireless Unit, 233
Tientsin, 40, 41
Tiltman, Captain John, 5, 40–1, 47, 54–5, 56, 58, 62, 75, 76, 79, 92, 119–21, 124, 145, 155, 157, 158–9, 160, 161, 176, 186, 196, 219, 224, 227, 236, 258, 278, 279
Times, The, 89
Timor, 113
Tippett, Colonel Kenneth, 166
Togo Shigenori, 272
Tojo Hideki, General, 9, 85, 91, 93, 97, 106
Tokyo Circular, 160, 191, 265, 272
‘Tokyo Express’, 157
Tokyo, 10, 174
Townend, Brian, 150, 175–6
Townsville, 80, 81, 116, 168
traffic analysis, 61, 93, 94, 96, 108, 143, 159, 167, 173, 174, 176, 184, 200, 210
Travis, Commander Edward ‘Jumbo’, 119, 149, 151, 155, 204, 214, 228
Trendall, Dale, 81, 172
Trincomalee, 129, 130
Tripartite Pact (1940), 65, 67, 73, 85
Truk, 134, 136, 163, 174, 234, 255
Truman, Harry S., 272, 273
Tuck, Captain Oswald, 120–1, 194, 257
Tulagi, 157
Turing, Alan, 2, 76, 220
Turkestan, 161
2 Wireless Unit, 259
Type X cipher machines, 149, 165, 166, 195, 243
Ukraine, 49
UKUSA Accord, 6, 198
Ultra, 182, 241–2, 244, 256, 262, 264, 272–3, 277
Underwood, Dennis, 164–5, 248–9, 250–1
United States of America: Air Force, 171, 181, 184, 255; Army, 173, 174, 225; Army-Navy rivalry, 5, 6; Black Chamber, 18; cables, 16; co-operation with Britain, 3, 6, 74–7, 124, 151–2, 153–4, 155, 169, 194, 197, 198, 218, 226, 269; FBI, 33, 150; Four Power Treaty, 28–9; Marines, 157, 184, 260; National Security Agency, 277, 279; Navy, 18, 100, 101, 137, 171, 260, 266; pinches, 174; sanctions against Japan, 89; security, 142; Senate, 16; State Department, 71; takes lead in cryptanalysis, 107; ‘upstart’, 4
universities: recruitment from, 1, 120
Vampire, HMS, 98, 129, 131
Vella Lavella, 184
Victoria, Queen, 48
Vine-Stevens, Betty, 192
Vint Hill Farms, 258
VJ-Day, 275
Vlasto, Alexis, 189, 191, 232, 237, 238, 246
Wahiawa, 123, 138–9
Wakde, 255, 257
Wake Island, 109, 137
Wall, Geoffrey ‘Septimus’, 205
Waller, John, 38, 39
Walshe, Keith, 172
Wang Chow, 106
Warspite, HMS, 132
Washington Conference (1921), 18, 28, 30
Washington Naval Treaty (1921), 97
Washington Post, 134–5
Washington Times Herald, 142
Washington, DC: Munitions Building, 68, 72; ‘Susan’, 124, 222
Watson (née Skipp), Rene, 13, 104
Watson, John, 13
Wau, 181, 184
Wavendon House, 201
Waves, 123
weather messages, 95, 99, 100, 126, 174, 234, 258
Webb, Lieutenant Norman, 102–3, 111, 167, 176, 180
Weeks, Lieutenant Robert, 74–7
Wenger, Commander Joseph, 155, 198
Western Desert, 166, 181
Western Union, 16
Western Wireless Signal Centre, 163–4, 223, 231, 232
Wewak, 181, 182, 254
Whewell, Lieutenant Michael, 238
Whitchurch, 223
Wickham, J. V., 204
Wiles, Christopher, 121
Wiles, Maurice, 121, 122, 159–60, 189, 190, 193, 232
Williams, Jack, 140
Willoughby, General Charles, 167, 169
Wilson, Angus, 200, 201, 210
Winchell, Walter, 142
Windsor Castle, 48
Winelli, 113
Wingate, Orde, 229–30
Winnipeg, 223
Winterbotham, Frederick, 242, 243–4; The Ultra Secret, 5
Wireless Experimental Centre, Delhi, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 177, 186, 223, 230, 231, 232, 241, 245, 247, 242–3, 279
wireless telegraphy, see cables and telegrams
Woburn Abbey, 201, 210, 222
Woburn Sands, 119
Wolverton, 189
Women's Army Corps, 261
Women's Australian Auxiliary Air Force, 115, 116, 261
Women's Auxiliary Air Force, 162, 231, 239, 240, 275
Women's Auxiliary Corps, 162
Women's Royal Australian Naval Service, 110–11
Women's Royal Naval Service, 9–10, 11, 12–13, 62–4, 82–4, 105, 118, 194–5, 198, 200, 201, 203, 206, 209, 210, 211, 214, 220, 231, 238, 276
Women's Services British India, 165
worksheets, 126, 127–8, 202
World War, First: codebreaking, 4, 14, 17, 34, 44, 57, 69
Wright, Wesley ‘Ham’, 139, 140
Wylie, Captain F. J., 80, 81
Y Committee, 35
Y Section, 83
Y Section, Hong Kong, 37, 39, 40, 57, 61
Y units, 266, 267
Yale University, 123
Yamamoto Isoruku, Admiral, 4, 85, 93, 95, 96, 137, 138, 139, 141, 182, 183–4, 255, 276, 277
Yamashita Tomoyuki, 265, 266
Yamato, 267
Yangtze River, 53
Yardley, Herbert, 18
Yokosuka, 24
Yorktown, USS, 135–6, 141, 260
Yoshihito, Emperor, 25
Yoshimo Maru, 256
Young Men's Malayan League (KAME), 94
Yoxall, Leslie, 220
Zuikaku, 134
Zygalski, Henryk, 4