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ISBN 0-09-182638-1. Mundy, Liza (2017). Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II. New York, Boston: Hachette Books. ISBN 978-0-316-35253-6., Chapter 10. Smith, Michael (2000). The Emperor's Codes: Bletchley Park and the breaking of Japan's secret ciphers. London: Bantam Press. ISBN 0593-046412.
A two-front war scenario, almost identical to the first World War would eventually aggregate in the European theatre during World War II, when Nazi Germany confronted allied France, Great Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands and later the United States in the west and the Soviet Union to the east. [31]
[1] [2] [3] A similar break into the most secure Japanese diplomatic cipher, designated Purple by the US Army Signals Intelligence Service, started before the US entered the war. Product from this source was called Magic. On the other side, German code breaking in World War II achieved some notable successes cracking British naval and other ...
53 OTU RAF was an Operational Training Unit of the Royal Air Force.It was formed at RAF Heston in February 1941 to train Spitfire pilots for Fighter Command. [1] In July 1941 it moved to RAF Llandow in Wales, and in May 1943 to RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey in Lincolnshire.
The maple leaf signifies the squadron's association as a Canadian unit in the First World War whilst the cobra represents that the squadron was one of the East India gift squadrons during the Second World War. [2] Awarded by King George VI in January 1942. [3] Post-1950 squadron roundel: Squadron codes: GR (Apr 1939 – Sep 1939; Oct 1939 ...
On 1 July 1943 coastal command dropped usage of SYKO, instead using a new Aircraft Reporting Code (S.P. 2488). Naval aircraft continued to use the SKYO code with Naval cards in 1944, [ 11 ] and at the time the Admiralty report was written (late 1945) the Naval version of SYKO (NYKO) was still in use for carrier-borne aircraft and some small craft.
The Kurzsignale code was intended to shorten transmission time to below the time required to get a directional fix. It was not primarily intended to hide signal contents; protection was intended to be achieved by encoding with the Enigma machine. A copy of the Kurzsignale code book was captured from German submarine U-110 on 9 May 1941. In ...
[1] This front line can be a local or tactical front, or it can range to a theater. An example of the latter was the Western Front in France and Belgium in World War I . Relatedly, front can refer to the direction of the enemy or, in the absence of combat, the direction towards which a military unit is facing. [ 1 ]