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Bletchley Park is an English country house and estate in Bletchley, Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire), ... On entering World War II in June 1940, ...
John Herivel, arrived at Bletchley Park in January 1940; discoverer of the "Herivel Tip"; later worked in administration in the "Newmanry" (science historian) Peter Hilton, arrived at Bletchley Park in January 1942, worked in Hut 8 until late 1942, moved to Research Section to work on Fish, later in Testery ; Harry Hinsley (historian)
About 7,500 women worked in Bletchley Park, the central site for British cryptanalysts during World War II.Women constituted roughly 75% of the workforce there. [1] While women were overwhelmingly under-represented in high-level work such as cryptanalysis, they were employed in large numbers in other important areas, including as operators of cryptographic and communications machinery ...
Charlotte Elizabeth Webb MBE (née Vine-Stevens; born 13 May 1923) [1] is an English code breaker [2] who worked at Bletchley Park during World War II at the age of 18. [3] [4] [5] Starting in 1941 she joined the British Auxiliary Territorial Service. [6]
A 2012 London Science Museum exhibit, "Code Breaker: Alan Turing's Life and Legacy", [102] marking the centenary of his birth, includes a short film of statements by half a dozen participants and historians of the World War II Bletchley Park Ultra operations. John Agar, a historian of science and technology, states that by war's end 8,995 ...
The Testery was a section at Bletchley Park, the British codebreaking station during World War II. It was set up in July 1942 as the "FISH Subsection" [1] under Major Ralph Tester, hence its alternative name. [2] Four founder members were Tester himself and three senior cryptanalysts: Captain Jerry Roberts, Captain Peter Ericsson and Major ...
British codebreakers, including Alan Turning, were based at the site during the war and fed crucial information to Allied forces ahead of D-Day.
A wartime picture of a Bletchley Park Bombe. The bombe (UK: / b ɒ m b /) was an electro-mechanical device used by British cryptologists to help decipher German Enigma-machine-encrypted secret messages during World War II. [1]