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This is the story of Britain’s early codebreakers, their humble beginnings and their incredible impact. From the British sabotage of German telegraph cables, to how a single, intercepted and decoded telegram helped change the course of history.
Jun 19, 2012 · On the first day of war, at the beginning of September 1939, Turing took up residence at Bletchley Park, the ugly Victorian Buckinghamshire mansion that served as the wartime HQ of Britain's top...
The British tried hard to conceal their code breaking success from the Axis. In 1942, when five Italian ships bound for Africa were sunk due to ULTRA information, Churchill sent a telegram to Naples congratulating a fictitious spy and awarding him a bonus.
May 17, 2024 · Fifty miles from London, Bletchley was close to roads and railroads. It was refitted as a center to decode messages produced by the infamous Enigma machine, a devilishly complicated German encoding device that resembled a large, overgrown typewriter.
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Feb 23, 2022 · Who were the Codebreakers? Nearly 10,000 people worked in the wider Bletchley Park organisation. At first GC&CS followed its pre-war recruitment policy and looked for ‘Men and women of a professor type’ through contacts at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
In the summer of 1939, with war looming, British cryptanalysts of the Government Code and Cipher School were evacuated to Bletchley Park, a Victorian mansion located about 50 miles from London in Buckinghamshire. It was headed by a naval officer, Commander Edward Travis.
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Sep 20, 2018 · By 1942, Bernard Montgomery, the new commander of the British Eighth Army, was able to take advantage of extensive intelligence courtesy of Bletchley Park, including information about the German order of battle and what Rommel’s intentions were.
