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Did you know? 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.
Aug 2, 2024 · Churchill famously called the Bletchley Park code-breakers, “The geese that laid the golden eggs and never cackled.” But for the WRENs, he had a special accolade. “He had a way of using birds as metaphors,” Bourne explained.
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Feb 23, 2022 · The Bletchley Park Roll of Honour lists all those believed to have worked in signals intelligence during World War Two, at Bletchley Park and other locations.
Bletchley Park is an English country house and estate in Bletchley, Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire), that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War.
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- Cracking The Enigma Machine
- Bletchley Park’s Legacy
The Enigma machine had been developed in Germany after World War I. Arthur Scherbius, a German engineer, hoped to interest commercial companies in secure communications. In 1923 he founded the Cipher Machines Corporation in Berlin to market a machine capable of transcribing coded information. In a matter of three years, the German Kriegsmarine bega...
At the outset of World War II in September 1939, the code breakers returned to Bletchley Park to begin their work in earnest. GCCS was the organization responsible for deciphering German and other Axis military codes. The organization did not operate on its own. Instead, it received information from a multitude of sources. The location was ideal be...
The primary function at Bletchley Park was breaking and reading the German Enigma code, particularly that of the Kriegsmarine. The naval code was of prime importance because German U-boats sinking were supply ships in the North Atlantic. Those losses inflicted on merchant shipping in the Atlantic became most serious in the period from July 1940 to ...
For those who had worked at Bletchley Park, there was always the feeling that every single contribution, no matter how small, counted. For the young people working in such an atmosphere, the excitement was unmatched in anything they had done before the war or would do after. How would they depressurize after years of working at maximum effort on ta...
Aug 2, 2024 · Bletchley Park, British government cryptological establishment in operation during World War II. Bletchley Park was where Alan Turing and other agents of the Ultra intelligence project decoded the enemy’s secret messages, most notably those that had been encrypted with the German Enigma and Tunny.
Churchill placed enormous value on their work, demanding to see not only summaries of their findings hot off the press, but also insisting on seeing raw data, too; he called them his ‘golden eggs’ laid by geese (code-breakers) that never cackled.
