There really was a Colossus computer?!
RIP.
Without the work at Bletchley Park, the war might have ended very differently….
These people did so much to make victory possible, with little credit.
RIP, friend.
It’s amazing that they were able to keep Bletchley Park a secret during the war, and even more so that they were able to continue to keep much of their work secret for many years after the war.
There is a book called Code Breakers which came out in 1993. The various chapters in the book each deal with some narrow aspect of the work at Bletchley, and each chapter is written by a person who was involved in that particular work. It’s a little rough reading because not all of the contributors are great writers, but it has the advantage of being accounts by the actual participants.
There are two chapters in the book concerning the work on Tunny.
Great line.... NEAT the way 'they' encrypted his name in his 'OBIT'.
Between Bletchley Park and our teams(Rochefort, Layton etal) in Hawaii, we pretty much 'read the enemy's mail' for the entire war.
Kept us a HUGE step ahead.
My father-in-law, who recently passed away at the age of 95, was a code copier with an intellegence unit that usually operated just behind the front lines in Europe in WWII. His outfit was teamed with a British company that had the Enigma machine. He copied German traffic which was then decoded by the Enigma. His unit was overrun at the Battle of the Bulge and about half of his unit was killed. As luck would have it, he had an attack of appendicitis and was in a London hospital at the time.
Informative, historical, little-known input from knowledgeable, literate posters. Congratulations to all.
Leni
These men saved the world. We speak English rather than German because of men like Jerry Roberts and the sacrifices they made. God bless them...
Prayers for his family and loved ones....