| Description |
1 online resource (302 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Prologue; Publisher's Foreword; Book One: Canada's Key Role in the War in the Pacific; Chapter 1 -- Canada Joins the Pacific War; Chapter 2 -- How Special Wireless Began; Chapter 3 -- Top Secrets and Japanese Kana; Chapter 4 -- The Last Trip Home; Chapter 5 -- San Francisco Over the Hill; Chapter 6 -- The Troopship as Floating Theatre; Chapter 7 -- Magic in the Torrid Zone; Chapter 8 -- Bogged down in Brisbane; Chapter 9 -- Secret Tricks of "Magic"; Chapter 10 -- By Train and Truck to the Outback; Chapter 11 -- Under the Spitfire's Wing; Chapter 12 -- The Pride of Harry Wethey |
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Chapter 13 -- Hot Sun and Hockey SticksChapter 14 -- Keeping the Computers Fed; Chapter 15 -- The Best of Tokyo Rose; Chapter 16 -- After the Bomb; Book Two: The Long Journey Home; Chapter 1 -- Rolling Down the Bitumen; Chapter 2 -- Alice and The Ghan; Chapter 3 -- Trucking Through the South; Chapter 4 -- The Capture of Sydney; Chapter 5 -- All Aboard Socotra; Chapter 6 -- Welcome to Vancouver; Epilogue; Biographies of Officers, 1CSWG; Sources |
| Summary |
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." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-302) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Canada. Canadian Army. Royal Canadian Corps of Signals. Candian Special Wireless Group, Number One -- History
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Communications.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- Canada
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area.
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
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Communications, Military
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Military campaigns
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Regimental histories
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Canada
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Pacific Area
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1550023713 |
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9781550023718 |
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1417594128 |
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9781417594122 |
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