Posted on 08/21/2004 7:07:30 AM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl
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Bletchley Park's USA Day celebrates American culture Stars and Stripes European edition, Thursday, August 19, 2004
MILTON KEYNES, England Several events are planned to celebrate USA Day at Bletchley Park, the home of World War II codebreakers who cracked the complex German Enigma code. The American Garden Trail at the park will be opened as part of the events that start at 10:30 a.m. Saturday. In addition, baseball and American football complete with cheerleading will be played. And American food such as hotdogs and Cajun chicken will be available, along with buttermilk pancakes and popcorn. The trail features several trees that are well-known to Americans. It starts at a giant sequoia tree, symbol of California, which was planted in front of the park mansion in Victorian times. The trail also features an orange tree from Florida and a lilac tree from New Hampshire. American jitterbug dancers will perform, and American classic cars will be displayed. The park was a vital part of the Allied victory during World War II. According to the parks Web site, it was here that codebreakers, who were given no chance to break the code, used the worlds first computer to accomplish the impossible and shorten the war, historians believe, by two years. Up to 10,000 people worked at the park during the war, but it was emptied by 1946. More information is available at the Web site: www.bletchleypark.org.uk. |
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What a great 'gig'......
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"Canada has had access to American know-how, British political knowledge, and French culture. What it's wound up with is British know-how, French political knowledge, and American culture"
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There myself and six months training.(1951-1952) American equipment was used mainly. I still bear in mind the admonition- ten years durance vile, if you betray what you do. One clue though, the late Johnny Cash was interviewed by Larry King. Asked what he did in the American Army, Johnny said High Speed Morse Intercept Operator. Yep, that was it.
It was the ending of the cold war that made obsolete many of these establishments.
When I was a nipper I jitterbugged ~ the old joints would really howl if I tired it now. :):):)
Big Bump for some real fun!
According to the park's Web site?.. According to historical fact, despite what you may have seen in the movie U571 ;-)
http://www.nzgirl.co.nz/articles/827
I didn't know Bletchley Park was in Poland.
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