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Tribune Tower's Secret

One cabin, one reporter, and the biggest secret of the Pacific war in the Sunday paper.

Collection: Chicago · USA · Open in OpenStreetMap

Tribune Tower, Chicago
Tribune Tower, Chicago · daryl_mitchell, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

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How the story begins

Commander Morton Seligman had a copy of the most secret order in the Pacific, and a reporter for a cabinmate. It was May 1942. His carrier, the Lexington, had just been sunk at the Coral Sea, and he was sharing a cabin on a cruiser with Stanley Johnston of the Chicago Tribune. The order was Admiral Nimitz's, for the forces going to Midway. Whether Seligman showed it to him or left it lying about has never been settled.

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Visiting

435 North Michigan Avenue. The tower is now private residences, so stay outside. The inset stones and their labels are at street level, free to see at any time.

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