Bratton, Rufus, COL

Deceased

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Last Rank
Colonel

Last Service Branch
Infantry

Last Primary MOS
9668-Area Intelligence Officer

Last MOS Group
Military Intelligence

Primary Unit
1945-1946, 9301, HQ Berlin Command

Service Years
1914 - 1952

Other Languages

Japanese

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Cold War Certificate

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Colonel

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Home State

South Carolina

South Carolina

Year of Birth
1892

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Date of Passing
Mar 19, 1958

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Army Staff Identification

War Department Military Intelligence

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US Army Retired (Pre-2007)

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Cold War Veteran

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Last Known Activity:

He was the Chief, Far Eastern Section of the War Department Intelligence Branch (G-2) from early 1937 to July 1944.

He intercepted and encoded the top secret Japanese 14 - Part Message. This message told the Japanese Embassy to break off all diplomatic relations with the USA early on the morning of Sunday, December 7th, 1941. He briefed General George Marshall on the immediate implications of this message. By the time the warnings of this message reached Hawaii, the Pearl Harbor attack was already in progress.

1910-1914, United States Military Academy, West Point

FromYear 1910	ToYear 1914
College United States Military Academy, West Point
Major Military Science

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Last Updated:Sep 5, 2012

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249 Also There at This College:

Anderson, Henry R., LTC, (1918-1942)

Anderson, John, MG, (1914-1946)

Aurand, Henry Spiese, LTG, (1915-1952)

Baade, Paul William, MG, (1911-1946)

Bank, Carl Conrad, BG, (1915-1950)

Barton, Raymond Oscar, MG, (1913-1946)

Bissell, John, BG, (1917-1946)

Bonham, Francis Graves, MAJ, (1917-1939)

Boye, Frederic William, BG, (1915-1950)

Bradley, Omar, GA, (1915-1981)

Bragdon, John Stewart, MG, (1915-1951)

Brewer, Carlos, MG, (1913-1933)

Brown, Albert Eger, MG, (1912-1949)

Buechler, Theodore, BG, (1914-1953)

Bull, Harold, LTG, (1914-1952)

Busbee, Charles Manly, BG, (1915-1953)

Caffey, Eugene Mead, MG, (1918-1956)

Cameron, Douglas Tilford, 1LT, (1916-1918)

Chamberlin, Guy Russell, 2LT, (1917-1918)

Chamberlin, Harry, BG, (1910-1944)

Chamberlin, Stephen, LTG, (1912-1951)

Chambers, William, BG, (1916-1946)

Cheadle, Henry, BG, (1913-1951)

Clark, Mark Wayne, GEN, (1917-1953)

Clay, Frank Butner, MAJ, (1918-1920)

Clay, Lucius Dubignon, GEN, (1918-1949)

Collins, Joseph Lawton, GEN, (1917-1956)

Conklin, John French, BG, (1915-1951)

Cook, Gilbert, MG, (1912-1948)

Corlett, Charles, MG, (1913-1946)

Corlett, Charles, LTG, (1913-1946)

Cota, Norman Daniel, MG, (1917-1946)

Cousins, Ralph Pittman, MG, (1915-1949)

Covell, William Edward Raab, MG, (1915-1946)

Cowles, Miles, BG, (1917-1953)

Craig, Louis A., MG, (1909-1952)

Crittenberger, Willis Dale, LTG, (1913-1952)

Cronkhite, Alexander Pennington, MAJ, (1915-1918)

Davis, John Fuller, BG, (1915-1952)

Davis, Michael F., BG, (1915-1950)

Davison, Donald Angus, MG, (1915-1944)

Dawley, Ernst, MG, (1910-1947)

Doe, Jens Anderson, MG, (1914-1949)

Eagles, William, MG, (1917-1953)

Eisenhower, Dwight David, GA, (1911-1952)

Esteves Völckers, Luis, MG, (1915-1957)

Evans, Vernon, MG, (1915-1953)

Eyster, George, BG, (1917-1950)

Faymonville, Philip, BG, (1912-1948)

Ferenbaugh, Claude Birkett, LTG, (1918-1958)

Ferris, Benjamin Greely, BG, (1915-1951)

Finley, Thomas, MG, (1916-1947)

Flint, Harry Albert, COL, (1907-1944)

Futch, Theodore, BG, (1917-1954)

Gilbreath, Frederick, MG, (1911-1946)

Gilkeson, Adlai Howard, BG, (1915-1951)

Goodman, John, BG, (1916-1946)

Greene, Douglas, MG, (1913-1946)

Griswold, Oscar Woolverton, LTG, (1910-1947)

Haislip, Wade Hampton, GEN, (1912-1951)

Hall, Charles, LTG, (1911-1948)

Halsey, Milton, MG, (1917-1953)

Harding, Horace, BG, (1917-1953)

Harmon, Ernest, MG, (1917-1948)

Harmon, Millard Fillmore, LTG, (1912-1945)

Harper, Arthur, MG, (1917-1953)

Harris, Arthur, BG, (1914-1948)

Harrison, William Kelly, LTG, (1917-1957)

Hasbrouck, Robert Wilson, MG, (1917-1947)

Heard, Jack, MG, (1910-1946)

Hearn, Thomas Guerdon, MG, (1915-1946)

Hess, Walter Wood, BG, (1915-1952)

Hibbs, Louis, MG, (1916-1947)

Hobbs, Leland Stanford, MG, (1915-1953)

Hobson, William, BG, (1912-1946)

Hoge, William Morris, GEN, (1916-1955)

Holbrook, Willard Ames, BG, (1918-1946)

Holdrigde, Herbert, BG, (1917-1944)

Homer, John, MG, (1911-1950)

Howell, Clinton Wilbur, BG, (1915-1946)

Howell, Reese Maughan, BG, (1915-1946)

Hurdis, Charles, MG, (1917-1946)

Hutchings, Henry, BG, (1908-1949)

Ingles, Harry, MG, (1914-1947)

Inglis, Fred, COL, (1916-1946)

Irving, Frederick, MG, (1917-1954)

Irwin, Stafford LeRoy, LTG, (1915-1952)

Jackson, Harold, BG, (1917-1953)

Johns, Dwight, BG, (1916-1949)

Johnson, James, BG, (1912-1948)

Jones, Byron Quinby, COL, (1912-1944)

Jones, Woodfin, COL

Kane, Paul, BG, (1916-1949)

Kean, William Benjamin, LTG, (1918-1954)

Keiser, Laurence B, MG, (1917-1953)

Keliher, John J., BG, (1915-1950)

Kendall, Paul, LTG, (1918-1957)

Keyes, Geoffrey, LTG, (1908-1954)

Kilburn, Charles, BG, (1917-1946)

Kimball, Allen, BG, (1911-1946)

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Brooks, John Bernard, Maj Gen USAF(Ret), (1912 - 1946)

Brown, John Herbert, Jr., VADM USN(Ret), (1914 - 1954)

Carberry, Joseph Eugene, Lt Col, (1914 - 1924)

Dargue, Herbert Arthur, Maj Gen, (1911 - 1941)

Davidson, Howard Calhoun, Maj Gen USAF(Ret), (1913 - 1946)

Hanley, Thomas James, Jr., Maj Gen USAF(Ret), (1915 - 1952)

Harmon, Hubert Reilly, Lt Gen USAF(Ret), (1915 - 1956)

Harmon, Millard Fillmore, Jr. ("Miff"), Lt Gen, (1912 - 1945)

Kilburn, Charles Lawrence, Lt Col, (1913 - 1942)

Lyon, Edwin Bowman, Maj Gen, (1915 - 1952)

McNarney, Joseph Taggart, Gen, (1915 - 1952)

Seydel, Fred C., Lt Col, (1910 - 1934)

Spaatz, Carl Andrew (Tooey), Gen, (1914 - 1948)

Stratemeyer, George Edward, Lt Gen USAF(Ret), (1911 - 1952)

Walton, Leo Andrew, Maj Gen, (1915 - 1949)

Wheeler, Sheldon Harley, Maj, (1910 - 1921)

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