If ADM Nimitz needed any more evidence confirming the magnitude of the Japanese effort, he got it on April 24 when one of CDR Rochefort’s newest codebreakers, Japanese linguist LT Joseph Finnegan discovered a reference to a new organization, the “MO” covering force!”
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Located on the southern coast of New Guinea, Port Moresby was important because any allied attack north through New Guinea towards Rabaul required Port Moresby as a base.
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On April 15, 1969, a Navy EC-121M reconnaissance aircraft (PR-21/BuNo 135749) of Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron One (VQ-1) with a crew of 31, including nine Naval Security Group (NAVSECGRU) and Marine linguists, took off from Atsugi Naval Air Station, Japan on a routine Beggar Shadow SIGINT collection mission over the Sea of Japan.
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Born at Holloman Air Force Base in El Paso, Texas on April 10, 1956 and growing up in Seattle, Washington and Southern California, CTRCM(SW) Christopher L. Vertin, the Naval Security Group’s ninth Force Master Chief, joined the Navy in August 1974.
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67 years ago today, on April 8, 1950, 10 crewmen of PB4Y-2 Privateer 59645 were the first to be MIA during the Cold War!
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