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Parent topics
- Signals intelligence in the Second World War [r]: Add brief definition or description
- World War Two in the Pacific [r]: The part of World War II (1937-45) fought in Asia and the Pacific Ocean between Japan and the U.S., China, Britain, Australia, and other Allies. [e]
- Southwest Pacific Area [r]: Second World War theater of operations under the command of Douglas MacArthur; major components included Australia, New Guinea, the Philippines, the western Solomon Islands, and the Malay Peninsula and Singapore [e]
Subtopics
- S.B. Akin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cryptanalysis [r]: The sub-field of cryptology which deals with breaking into existing codes and ciphers. [e]
- Charles Willoughby [r]: Major General, U.S. Army, who was the chief of intelligence (i.e., G-2) for Douglas MacArthur during the Second World War, Japanese Occupation and Korean War [e]
- Allied Geographic Service, Southwest Pacific Area [r]: Add brief definition or description provided topographic information on this little-mapped theate which produced maps and geographical data about the SWPA
- Allied Translator and Interpreter Service, Southwest Pacific Area [r]: Add brief definition or description(ATIS) which interpreted millions of captured documents, intercepted messages and interrogated thousands of Japanese POW's
- Allied Intelligence Bureau, Southwest Pacific Area [r]: Add brief definition or description for human intelligence; MacArthur had banned the Office of Strategic Services
- 1st Reconnaissance Battalion (Special) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Australian Coast Watching Service [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Section 22, General Headquarters, Southwest Pacific Area [r]: Add brief definition or description also under Akin but including Navy and Marine Corps, with an electronic intelligence mission against Japanese radar
- Schutzstaffel [r]: A Nazi German organization, the "SS". technically part of the National Socialist German Workers' Party but in many respects a "state within a state", its functions intermingled with government offices in a manner characteristic of Adolf Hitler's desire to keep final control. While it is best known for its security and genocidal operations, it also had major economic and regular military roles, a far growth from its original role as Hitler's personal bodyguard [e]
- Marine Special Operations Command [r]: The Marine component of U.S. Special Operations Command, this unit absorbed the existing Marine special reconnaissance "Force Recon" companies (but not battalions), but also added a support organization, school, and a system of developing training teams for foreign internal defense and other special operations missions [e]