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- The Navy and Army recruited more than 10,000 women as ‘cryptanalysts’ to decipher enemy codes during World War II.
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Feb 23, 2022 · Many famous Codebreakers including Alan Turing, Gordon Welchman and Bill Tutte were found this way. Others such as Dilly Knox and Nigel de Grey had started their codebreaking careers in WW1. The organisation started in 1939 with only around 150 staff, but soon grew rapidly.
Aug 2, 2024 · They signed the Official Secrets Act and were told they were going to be breaking German codes. Every employee of Bletchley—there would be some 10,000 of them over the years—signed that important document, and apparently not one broke the silence it dictated.
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World War II Code-Breakers. 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.
Sep 20, 2018 · By the end of the Second World War in 1945 nearly 10,000 people worked at Bletchley Park, an enormous increase on the 130-strong staff that composed the Government Code and Cypher School in 1939. In many ways it was one of the most remarkable groups ever assembled.
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The clattering of typewriters and the hum of early computers hidden inside a small manor in the English countryside was the site of one of WWII's most pivotal battles: codebreaking. At Bletchley Park, brilliant minds worked tirelessly to decrypt enemy messages.
The nations involved fielded a plethora of code and cipher systems, many of the latter using rotor machines. As a result, the theoretical and practical aspects of cryptanalysis, or codebreaking, were much advanced. Possibly the most important codebreaking event of the war was the successful decryption by the Allies of the German "Enigma" Cipher.
From 1941 onwards, Bletchley's experts focused upon breaking the codes used by German U-boats in the Atlantic. In March 1941, when the German armed trawler 'Krebs' was captured off Norway complete with Enigma machines and codebooks, the German naval Enigma code could finally be read.
