Station HYPO

LTJG Norman Elbert Wilkerson
March 30, 1943 – April 15, 1969

On March 22, 1982 – Ground was broken in Washington D.C. for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial designed by Maya Lin of Yale.

Some little known information regarding the Memorial:

An amazing family story by ENS Ray Kethledge, USN.  ENS Kethledge is currently attending the Cryptologic Warfare Officer Basic Course (CWOBC) at Corry Station Pensacola.

The Cold War – The Early Stages

On Friday October 29, 1948 (known by cryptologists as Black Friday), the Soviets executed a massive change of their code and cipher systems and communications procedures with devastating effect upon the U.S. efforts to produce COMINT.

Korean War – Air Force

Intercepts of Soviet-built MiG fighter aircraft radio traffic confirmed the long-held suspicion that Russians were controlling the air defense of North Korea and Manchuria, not the Chinese or the North Koreans: “…we were actually monitoring the Soviet Air Force fighting the American Air Force, and we were listening to the Soviet pilots being directed by Soviet ground controllers to fight American pilots.

Operation QUICKSILVER: Deception Covering the

Landing in Normandy

One great challenge of WWII was keeping secret the planned Allied landing sites in Europe. Hitler and the Germans, for a number of reasons, had a firm belief that the location of the landing would be on the French coast at Pas-de-Calais, the shortest distance across the English Channel.