Cryptologic History:
Joseph Richard
Unknown Date of Death
Registry Sponsor(s): Mr. & Mrs. David Hendershot, Mr. & Mrs Edgar Duin, and Clifton & Page Link.
As a member of the US Army Signal Intelligence Service Unit – Mr. Richard joined the Central Bureau in Australia in the early days of World War II. He trained at the Central Bureau at Monmouth, and later, while at the Central Bureau, broke the Japanese Army high-level cipher system and contributed to the solution of other Japanese systems. For this, he was awarded the Legion of Merit. He was discharged from the Army in 1946 and joined the Army Security Agency as a cryptanalyst.
This information was extracted from his oral interview with NSA in 1985, the transcripts of which can be viewed online.