Includes appendix listing Acronyms and Abbreviations and appendix listing On-The-Roof Gang Class Rosters.
Summary:
The U.S. Navy's On-The-Roof Gang: Volume 1 - Prelude to War is an historical novel based on the unknown true-life story of the "On-The-Roof" Gang," the U.S. Navy's fledgling radio intelligence organization in the years leading up to World War II. It is based on the real life of Harry Kidder, a U.S. Navy radioman who first discovered and deciphered Japanese katakana telegraph codes while stationed in the Philippines in the 1920's.
Series:
The On-the-Roof Gang ; bk. 1 Zullo, Matt. On-the-Roof Gang ; bk. 1.
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