Died at age 94 in Fairbanks, Alaska. "Bob" taught at MIT. He was a brillian man and knew much about many subjects. He was a Ham Radio Administrator. During WWII he

His name was Robert "Bob" Hisimoto. He was a Hawaiian or Japanese descent.His hobby as a young person had been breaking written codes (cryptography/analysis, collection, processing). He could copy the Japanese version of Morse code and figured it out with his hobby according to him. Bob was the man who broke the code and told the US Navy about the pre-warning of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. (Undocumented)

Robert M Hisamoto, 1908 - 2003

Robert M Hisamoto was born on August 15 1908.Robert lived in Fairbanks, Alaska 99709, USA.Robert passed away on August 11 2003, at age 94.

Bob's son; https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/newsminer/obituary.aspx?n=grinnell-johnston-hisamoto&pid=120701334

More of the "Rest of the Story" about Bob Hisamoto; from Raul Gutierrez

(1 March 2021 to Barbara Connolly, WWII Historical Researcher)

I met BOB thru Orvall Larry, a common friend. We met at one of the Positive Thinking seminars, they used to hold regularly in Fairbanks.

I went to Fairbanks to install a power plant for FMUS at their Chena Power Plant, in 1976.

Bob told me that he was born in Hawaii (he looked Japanese), and that before he was part of a team working with Albert Einstein, and that on occasion he did correct Einstein’s equations. Was told that the seminar was conceptualized by Einstein, when he ceased to investigate and concentrated in finding, from his mind, answers to life and death and other human topics.

Bob was working for NASA in Alaska tuning the net of antenna dishes tracking outer space sounds, and he did show me computer graphs depicting sounds. One time mentioned the complicated effort of pointing the antennas in the right direction. He had a younger wife, many children, perhaps over 10 and I had dinner at his house in several occasions.

Years later he came to Mexico City looking for me, as I was not in Mexico, found out from a sister of mine that I was in Guatemala, where he showed up at my hotel room, with Fred and my sister. Spent a few days there, explained to me in a simple manner how was it that Einstein conceptualized what he proved with the e=mc2 formula, very interesting.

Eventually my sister married Fred and moved to Fairbanks.

This is all I can remember.

Raul Gutierrez

March 2021 … (To Barbara; Hello, I am writing from Mexico City. I met Bob many years ago and I know more things about him, some of which he shared. After I left Fairbanks, he came looking for me with a common friend Fred Davies. Thanks and regards Raul Gutierrez

AND; **Hello Raul, how may I help you? The message is plain, but it failed to give me the name of the Hero you are asking about… which I will assume is "Bob". : ) Please send the link and/or name and some additional information. Thank you for contacting me, I am always pleased to add to one of our members pages. I live in Arizona. Blessings, Barbara Connolly **Princessbarbi_B25@msn.com

MARCH 2021; Barbara to Raul,

WOW… Holy cow, that's quite a story and it surely sounds like meetings of brilliant minds. It is usually a good thing they went off to pursue other (interesting to them) things. I placed Bob's story because my dad/Edward C Ennis, Airborne RADAR/Radio /Aerial Ginner, B-25 Mitchells in the MTO WWII …. he lived through it and came home to land at the Bradley Field AAB (Connecticut) running the Field and Tower (qualified but he was a T/Sgt.) SO they found a "paper pusher" Lt. out of Washington DC (became my Godfather) but he knew nothing about airplanes, etc. So, my dad still ran the field and was the one who deciphered the Cryptograph.

;- D Your story is fascinating! *** May I place your story? *** I love seeing credit go to those who deserved it and BOB certainly does. If we truly knew what all happened and where…. there'd be lots of "The Rest of the Story!"

Thank you, Blessings, Barbara

Record	Events	Title	Source Website	Type	Created
WWII Enigma CRYPTOGRAPH very much like what Bob used to break the code.			Forces War Records	Image	Oct 30, 2011
Robert M Hisamoto	Birth, Custom, Death, People	US, Social Security Death Index	Forces War Records	Index Record	Sept 3, 2008

Robert M Hisamoto

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