[Ragtime Cowgirl]

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...

 

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Allied, ping!

[maestro]

.......American jitterbug dancers will perform ........

:-)

What a great 'gig'......

:-)

[Savage Beast]

Who was the Canadian Prime Minister who said:

"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"
?

[Peter Libra]

Nice to hear about Bletchley Park. Good to see some people over there give- credit where credit is due. It could have been emptied in 1946, but only temporarily. Throughout the cold war there were various organizations there. Some were ordinary training groups such as the Post Office telephone systems trainees. As many as 300 young women. Other groups could be described as "classified".

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.

[burlywood]

According to the park's Web site, it was here that codebreakers, who were given no chance to break the code, used the world's first computer to accomplish the impossible and shorten the war, historians believe, by two years.

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

[dfwgator]

at Bletchley Park, the home of World War II codebreakers who cracked the complex German Enigma code.

I didn't know Bletchley Park was in Poland.