Intelligence

 

The Dozier Family in Japan, circa 1920’s

The Japanese altered their pre-war message codes after the Coral Sea (6 May 1942), and a few weeks before the Aleutians and Midway ( June 1942).  The changes were enough to send US Naval Intelligence in Honolulu scrambling.

The Secret Service brought in a well-known Southern Baptist missionary who had recently arrived in Hawaii after being booted out of Japan along with the other undesirable westerners.  Reverend Edwin Burke Dozier, who became part of the Olivet Baptist Church in Honolulu, was the son of S.B.C. missionaries from Georgia.  He had been born and raised in Japan – the Nagasaki-Fukuoka area of Kyushu’s west coast.

Rev. Dozier’s masterful ear for the Japanese language discerned that the enemy was using Japanese baby-talk in the key parts of their altered code.  These were not words found in any dictionary and a person would have had to been raised from birth in a Japanese home to know them.

Dozier helped to break the new code, and later, he was called upon frequently to evaluate O.N.I. reports and guide the code breakers in nuances in Japanese thought that steered their code formations.  All the data was then sent on to Washington D.C.

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On numerous occasions through and after the war he was offered high commissions in both the military and governmental intelligence services; all of which he refused.  Dozier believed his calling in life was to preach the Gospel to the Japanese people.

When G-2 BGeneral Henry Muller Jr. was informed about these developments from Matt Underwood, Editor of “The Voice of the Angels” 11th A/B Division Assn., he was fascinated.  Muller considered it to be no real surprise that an enemy as formidable and resourceful as the Japanese could come up with their own version of Navajo codetalkers by speaking a sort of language not found in any dictionary.

“Edwin Dozier In Japan”

Rev. Dozier’s account is mentioned in his biography, “Edwin Dozier of Japan: Man of the Way,” by Lois Whaley, Women’s Missionary Union, 1983.  This data was published in the “Voice of the Angels,” 11th A/B Div. Assn., Vol. 185, December 2014.

Judy Hardy at – Greatest Generation Lessons and I are attempting to coordinate our websites.  As I post about June 1942 and the activity in the Aleutian Islands, she will be posting letters and home front stories that correspond.  Judy had her Uncle Ced in Alaska at this time along with a family friend, Rusty.

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Farewell Salutes – 

Anthony Angerosa – Fishkill, NY; US Army, WWII, ETO, Purple Heart, Bronze Star

Turi Blake – Taranaki, NZ; RNZ Navy # 621648, WWII

Gunther Ditzel – Carlsbad, CA; US Army Air Corps, WWII

William Fay Jr. – Delray Beach, FL; US Navy, WWII, pilot

Donald Huard – Augusta, ME; US Army, WWII, PTO, 161st Infantry Reg/25th Infantry Div.

Harry Karas Jr. – Yakima, WA; US Army, Navy & Air Force, Korea, Vietnam, (Ret. 30 Years)

J.W. Landry Jr. – Crowley, LA; US Army, WWII, ETO, Bronze Star

Virginia Powers – Lansing, MI; USMC, Sgt. (Ret.)

Daniel Quinlin – Columbus, GA; US Army, Colonel (Ret. 33 years)

Raymond Sinclair – UK & CAN; British Army, WWII, ETO

Stella Uhorczuk – Alexandria, VA; WIMSA (USMC), WWII, (Ret. 30 years government service)

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