Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day!
On this Veterans Day, consider a future Supreme Court justice who enlisted in the Navy on December 6, 1941 — one day before the attack on Pearl Harbor. He spent the war as a codebreaker in the Pacific, earning a Bronze Star, and his team’s work decrypting Japanese radio traffic helped American pilots locate and shoot down the plane carrying Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the mastermind of the Pearl Harbor attack. Decades later, he said that targeted killing of a single named enemy had sown his first doubts about the death penalty. Name the justice.
Hint: A Chicago native who finished first in his class at Northwestern law.
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