To: BradyLS
>>What was the city that Churchill let Hitler bomb so that the secret that Germany’s Enigma code had been cracked was kept safe?
I think it was Coventry.
31 posted on
02/25/2018 1:58:55 PM PST by
Bryanw92
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To: Bryanw92
Coventry. You’re right. Thanks for the reminder!
34 posted on
02/25/2018 2:03:37 PM PST by
BradyLS
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To: Bryanw92
Yeah. And in The Angry Silence by John Burke, “being sent to Coventry” was an idiomatic expression meaning ostracism, based on that decision by Churchill to not tell Coventry they were about to be bombed.
39 posted on
02/25/2018 2:19:17 PM PST by
Eleutheria5
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To: Bryanw92; BradyLS
Then the British basically incinerated Dresden, which was supposedly payback for Coventry.
47 posted on
02/25/2018 2:47:49 PM PST by
OttawaFreeper
("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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