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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.
Nov 14, 2014 · 4. Alice Kober and Linear B. The ancient Bronze Age script known as “Linear B” was eventually cracked in 1952 by English linguist Michael Ventris but new reports suggest he might never have ...
Jun 19, 2012 · Alan Turing - the Bletchley Park codebreaker - would have been 100 years old on 23 June had he lived to the present day. To mark the occasion the BBC commissioned a week-long series of articles to ...
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. Alice Loxton tracks down four female veterans who share their stories of the ...
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Aug 2, 2024 · Codebreakers at work at Bletchley Park, during World War II. UK Gov / CC. Perfectly coiffed and groomed to dash off to a meeting, Ruth Bourne sits in her North London home and modestly explains how she helped save Western civilization, one letter at a time. Bourne was 18 years old in 1944, fresh out of her WREN (Women’s Royal Naval Service ...
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Mar 30, 2024 · Dr Waugh said she had met a Bletchley worker, Jane Monroe, who told her she "made the tea". It was not until later that Dr Waugh discovered Ms Monroe was a Hut 6 codebreaker. Dr Sutherland said ...
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During World War II some encipherment was still carried out by hand, but for most messages electrical code and cipher machines were used. The Germans had several including the Enigma machine, the Lorenz SZ40 and the Siemens Geheimschreiber. The British used a Type X machine. Each machine could be used to produce many different ciphers and all ...
