 Intelligence was the crucial element in the United States victory at mid-life. Commander Rochefort headed the code breaking network at Hawaii and it was his team's job to intercept all Japanese Navy communications. Rochefort was able to fairly conclusively determine that Midway was going to be the target for the Japanese strike. After Rochefort had broken this code however, he still had to convince the United States higher command. Admiral Mimitz was fairly convinced when he saw this information brought before him. Intelligence breaking, you know, required the correlation of a lot of different information. Rochefort, you know, never sought out credit for his work. He always praised the team as a whole because intelligence breaking wasn't a single individual.