While the Second World War raged in Europe, demanding most of Canada’s military effort, an equally fierce war with Japan was going on in the Far East. Army, navy, and air force signals units in Canada kept watch on the enemy’s vital radio communications. To be more effective, Number One Canadian Special Wireless Group of the Royal Canadian Signals Corps was formed to go to the Southwest Pacific war theatre for close-in radio eavesdropping.
Murray describes the often zany career of the only complete signals unit Canada sent to the War in the Pacific, and the significant part it played in the Allied signals intelligence operation known as "Magic."
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-302)
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 940.54/8671
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9781770701076 1550023713
- LCCN
- D768.15
- LCCN Item number
- M83 2001eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- DLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (302 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)jme00322764 (OCoLC)180772736 (CaOOCEL)404485
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- DLC
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Prologue 8
- Publisher’s Foreword 10
- Book One: Canada’s Key Role in the War in the Pacific 12
- Chapter 1 - Canada Joins the Pacific War 14
- Chapter 2 - How Special Wireless Began 22
- Chapter 3 - Top Secrets and Japanese Kana 38
- Chapter 4 - The Last Trip Home 48
- Chapter 5 - San Francisco Over the Hill 58
- Chapter 6 - The Troopship as Floating Theatre 70
- Chapter 7 - Magic in the Torrid Zone 82
- Chapter 8 - Bogged down in Brisbane 94
- Chapter 9 - Secret Tricks of “Magic” 106
- Chapter 10 - By Train and Truck to the Outback 122
- Chapter 11 - Under the Spitfire’s Wing 142
- Chapter 12 - The Pride of Harry Wethey 154
- Chapter 13 - Hot Sun and Hockey Sticks 170
- Chapter 14 - Keeping the Computers Fed 182
- Chapter 15 - The Best of Tokyo Rose 194
- Chapter 16 - After the Bomb 206
- Book Two: The Long Journey Home 220
- Chapter 1 - Rolling Down the Bitumen 222
- Chapter 2 - Alice and The Ghan 232
- Chapter 3 - Trucking Through the South 246
- Chapter 4 - The Capture of Sydney 256
- Chapter 5 - All Aboard Socotra 272
- Chapter 6 - Welcome to Vancouver 284
- Epilogue 294
- Biographies of Officers, 1CSWG 296
- Sources 300
