Two Men Who Never Met Changed WW2 with Genius Cracking of Japanese 'Super-Code' - The Mirror

Two men who never met changed WW2 with genius cracking of Japanese 'super-code' - The Mirror

Joseph Rochfort, a maverick US naval officer with a talent for crosswords, and John Tiltman, a British Army Brigadier, never met - yet their genius minds helped unravel a deadly mystery

Two men who never met changed WW2 with genius cracking of Japanese 'super-code'

Joseph Rochfort, a maverick US naval officer with a talent for crosswords, and John Tiltman, a British Army Brigadier, never met – yet their genius minds helped unravel a deadly mystery To the ordinary eye they were simply random numbers, groups of figures with little pattern or form. But they held secret information on which the outcome of World War II depended. Now, ahead of the 80th anniversary of VJ Day next month, the remarkable story of ho…