On December 11, Lt. Cmdr. WInfield S. Cunningham was asked by superiors in a coded message what he needed. The actual defiant message, "Send us more Japs" was never sent as such. A junior officer added the words "Send us" to the beginning of the coded reply and "more Japs" to the end in order to confuse Japanese code-breakers. When it was received it was misinterpreted as "Send us more Japs."

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