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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, ...
This is a list of people associated with Bletchley Park, the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War, notable either for their achievements there or elsewhere. Work at or for Bletchley Park is given first, followed by achievements elsewhere in parentheses.
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]
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 ...
A guided tour of the history and geography of the Park, written by one of the founder members of the Bletchley Park Trust. Gannon, Paul (2006). Colossus: Bletchley Park's Greatest Secret. London: Atlantic Books. ISBN 1-84354-330-3. Price, David A. (2021). Geniuses at War; Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age. New York: Knopf.
Joan Elisabeth Lowther Murray, MBE (née Clarke; 24 June 1917 – 4 September 1996) was an English cryptanalyst and numismatist who worked as a code-breaker at Bletchley Park during the Second World War.
Hut 8 was a section in the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park (the British World War II codebreaking station, located in Buckinghamshire) tasked with solving German naval (Kriegsmarine) Enigma messages. The section was led initially by Alan Turing. He was succeeded in November 1942 by his deputy, Hugh Alexander. Patrick ...