[Photo] United States Marine Major Alva B. “Red” Lasswell, one of the Navy’s best cryptanalyst-linguists, relaxing with his pipe in Hawaii, 1944-45. Lasswell decrypted the message leading to the Yamamoto mission in 1943.

United States Marine Major Alva B. “Red” Lasswell, one of the Navy’s best cryptanalyst-linguists, relaxing with his pipe in Hawaii, 1944-45. Lasswell decrypted the message leading to the Yamamoto mission in 1943.

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United States Marine Major Alva B. “Red” Lasswell, one of the Navy’s best cryptanalyst-linguists, relaxing with his pipe in Hawaii, 1944-45. Lasswell decrypted the message leading to the Yamamoto mission in 1943. ww2dbase

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Hawaii

Date

Oct 1944

Photographer

Unknown

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