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  1. 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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  2. 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.

  3. Jun 19, 2012 · Turing's Treatise on Enigma helped break Germany's encrypted messages. Germany's Army, Air Force and Navy transmitted many thousands of coded messages each day during World War II. These...

  4. During World War II, Germany believed that its secret codes for radio messages were indecipherable to the Allies. However, the meticulous work of code breakers based at Britain's Bletchley Park cracked the secrets of German wartime communication, and played a crucial role in the final defeat of Germany. The Enigma story began in the 1920s, when ...

  5. Aug 2, 2024 · World War II. The teams of men and women at Eastcote, Britain’s codebreaking center, were vital in saving Western civilization during WWI. Bourne was 18 years old in 1944, fresh out of her WREN (Women’s Royal Naval Service) training, when she was assigned to SDX.

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  6. 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.

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  8. Feb 17, 2011 · Breaking Germany's Enigma Code. By Andrew Lycett. Last updated 2011-02-17. Germany's armed forces believed their Enigma-encrypted communications were impenetrable to the Allies. But thousands of...

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