Bletchley Park, Code-breaking, Enigma Machine

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WW2 People's War - A Bristolian at Bletchley Park

Diana Neale nee Spence, aged 20, at Woburn Abbey, 1943, where she was billetted. "I was called up into the WRNs at the beginning of 1943. Then I had two weeks of training at a centre in London, and was then sent to work at Bletchley Park...In Hut 4, we worked with brilliant linguists from Oxford and Cambridge. When we received the german messages which had been decoded, they translated them from German into English, and then sent these to typists be typed up."

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Codebreaker, 90, handed Bletchley Park papers telling her what her husband did while working with her on Enigma machine

Codebreaker, 90, handed Bletchley Park papers telling her what her husband did while working with her on Enigma machine. It was the first time that Mrs Batey, 90, had ever seen what her husband Keith - a fellow codebreaker on the project - had been working on during their time there. The couple had each written independently for the report and never gave the secret away to each other despite being married. click through

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Bletchley Park names 'secret' World War II codebreakers

Bletchley Park names 'secret' World War II codebreakers (October 3, 2013)

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Alan Turing, a sad, true tale of gay persecution …

Alan Turing is the father of computer science. He is largely responsible for development of the Turing-Welchman bombe, which effectively cracked Enigma-encoded messages during WWII. He created a formal definition of the algorithm and created the Turing machine. Without him, we may not have computers as we know them to be today.

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MOOR HALL PICTURE GALLERY NUMBER TWO

Bettina Hansford (left), seen here in 1946 at Moor Hall, was a linguist at Bletchley Park from February 1942 to June 1945. She and her sister Gioconda both worked in Hut 4 and Block A, Naval Section, and were involved in indexing and mapping. Both were English girls born and brought up in Italy and dealt with Italian messages. They were colleagues of Sarah Baring, Osla Benning and Jean Campbell-Harris.

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American-born actress Dorothy Hyson moved with her parents to the UK at an early age and became a star of stage and screen in the 1930's and 40's. During the war she was recruited for Bletchley Park and worked in Hut 8. Her future husband, the actor Anthony Quayle, visited her there and "found her ill and exhausted with the long night shifts.'

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WW2 codebreakers - the final secret

WW2 codebreakers - the final secret: Rare photo emerges of female codebreakers who worked in secret using world's first electronic computer to crack Hitler's messages during World War Two. Mrs Chorley, extreme right, and her fellow codebreakers at Bletchley Park in the photograph taken in 1945. Photo: Geoff Robinson

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Mathematician Margaret Rock joined Bletchley Park on 15 April 1940 and was selected to work in Dillwyn (Dilly) Knox’s Research Section, a small team tasked with breaking untried ‘Enigma machine variations’ and later the German Abwehr Enigmas. Margaret received an MBE for her services to the country in 1945.

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Alan Turing's Universal Machine is named greatest British innovation of the 20th Century

Enigma machine. Alan Turing was part of the British cryptographic team at Bletchley Park that cracked the German Enigma code during World War II.

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My Secret Life in Hut Six

My Secret Life in Hut Six Imagine discovering that your beloved elderly mother hadn’t just worked for the Foreign Office during the Second World War, as she modestly admitted, but that she had been one of the team at Bletchley Park who were tasked with helping to identify and crack the secrets of the Germans’ coded Enigma machine messages…

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Recognising Bletchley Park's unsung heroines

Ruth Bourne was one of the Wrens who operated the "bombes" at Bletchley Park. She recalls "There were between 10 and 12 machines in bays, it was very noisy and very boring. It was not an easy job and you had to concentrate but you were very satisfied when you cracked a code."

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Blind Veterans UK | London

I cracked Hitler’s personal code. On 23 August 2012 Nancy Jackson, a member of Blind Veterans UK, returned to Bletchley Park for the first time since she left in 1945 as Wren Petty Officer Nancy Atkins. Sixty seven years later, Nancy made a shocking discovery. Nancy said: “It was quite incredible to find out that I worked on the Lorenz Code and not the Enigma C ode. I had no idea until today that those messages were from Hitler & that we were working to crack the highest level code"

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The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreakin…

"The Secret Life Of Bletchley Park: The History Of The Wartime Codebreaking Centre In The Words Of The Men & Women Who Worked There" by Sinclair McKay ... #LibraryLoans