Abstract
ABSTRACT In late October 1942, LtCmdr Joseph Rocherfort, USN, was dismissed from his job as officer in charge of the Navy's radio intelligence center in Honolulu. Trained in both Japanese language and radio intelligence, he had been sent there a little over a year before by OP-20-G, the element in naval communications in overall charge of radio intelligence. During that time he had seen his beloved Pacific Fleet in both defeat and victory. His contributions in radio intelligence in that short time were legendary among his colleagues in Hawaii and his services were so highly valued by the Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet, Admiral Chester Nimitz, that, after the American victory at Midway, he was recommended for a Distinguished Service Medal. This article describes how and why, so early in the war, this multi-talented naval officer lost his job in Hawaii and spent virtually the entire war outside the intelligence field altogether.
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