I’m entering hour 13 of this all-day studying marathon. And I have yet to make it through half of the material I needed to read… And tomorrow, I’ll only about half the time to study… and I’ll be quite sleep deprived at that too…
But whatever, that’s just the way it is, I guess… I actually can’t believe the drive I have now to study… makes me think that I really can do it… I can handle school still. But then again, for this class I am going on some pretty serious motivation.. I need to pass this class so that the History portion of my degree will be done with! Ahahaha. Passing this class means, no more history classes ever again! And what a way to end it with as awesome a class as History of Modern Espionage…
Anyway, I am reading through an article about the history of Signals Intelligence in World War II… which is what I wrote my First Term Research Paper on… And what do I come across? This: The solution after Pearl Harbor of Japanese naval codes engendered three critical American victories: the battle of Midway, the midair assasination of Japan’s leading strategist and architecture of Pearl Harbor attack, admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, and the strangling of the island empire through the sinking of its merchant marine… What’s the significance of this? Well the thing is I’d never read this article until today… yet the evidence I used in that research paper were exactly those three! Well almost those three at least…
And I quote from my paper…
“This paper will explore the impact of the use of intelligence derived from decrypted Japanese Naval codes, also known as “Ultra”, on the war in the Pacific. Through an analysis of the assassination of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the naval battle at Guadalcanal, and the destruction of the Japanese merchant fleet (the marus), it will be shown that Ultra was quite a significant factor in the defeat of Japan. While it is not necessarily the absolute cause, it certainly was essential to the victory of the United States over Japan in the Second World War.”
The only difference, the Battle of Guadalcanal… but then again, when I was using that example, I of course had to deal with the Battle of Midway too… So it’s pretty much the same three. Hahaha.
Anyway. I just thought that was really cool… Bleh. Back to studying…