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Historical Highway MarkersVint Hill Farms StationFF-14
In June 1942 the U.S. Army established a top-secret post at Vint Hill Farms to intercept enemy radio transmissions. These barns housed the monitoring station. The Signal Corps' cryptographic school, which taught personnel to encode, decode, and translate messages, was moved here. Pvt. Leonard A. Mudloff is credited with intercepting a message here from Oshima Hiroshi, the Japanese ambassador to Germany, on 10 Nov. 1943. It described German coastal fortifications in western France, troop strengths, and contingency plans. The “Oshima intercept” was a crucial contribution to the planning for D-Day, the Allied invasion of Europe. The post operated through the Cold War, closing in 1997.
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References/Bibliographic Citation: James L. Gilbert and John P. Finnegan, eds., Signals Intelligence in World War II: A Documentary History (Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army, 1993). Carl Boyd, Hitler’s Japanese Confidant: General Oshima Hiroshi and MAGIC Intelligence, 1941-1945 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993). “Selected Examples of Commendations and Related Correspondence Highlighting the Achievements and Value of U.S. Signals Intelligence During World War II” (National Cryptologic Museum Library). Louis Kruh, “Vint Hill Farms Station,” Cryptologia 23 (1999): 259. John Salmon, “Vint Hill Farms Station Historic District Significance Statement” (2013). John Salmon, “Leonard Mudloff and the Oshima Intercept” (2013). U.S. Congressman Frank R. Wolf, Virginia, Congressional Record, vol. 140, no. 53, 5 May 1994, Extensions of Remarks, page E, from Congressional Record Online through the Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov Dave Mailler, “Out of the Past,” www.citizensforfauquier.org (Winter 2014). |