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Bletchley Park is an English country house and estate in Bletchley, Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire), that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War. The mansion was constructed during the years following 1883 for the financier and politician Herbert Leon in the Victorian Gothic , Tudor and Dutch Baroque ...
Derek Taunt, arrived in Bletchley Park in August 1941, worked in Hut 6 (mathematician, later bursar of Jesus College, Cambridge) Telford Taylor, US Army (Counsel for the Prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials) Ralph Tester, linguist, head of the Testery and member of a TICOM team (accountant with Unilever) John Thompson, codebreaker [citation needed]
Hut 8 was a section in the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park (the British World War II codebreaking station, located in Buckinghamshire) tasked with solving German naval (Kriegsmarine) Enigma messages. The section was led initially by Alan Turing. He was succeeded in November 1942 by his deputy, Hugh Alexander. Patrick ...
Enever, Ted (1999), Britain's Best Kept Secret: Ultra's Base at Bletchley Park (3rd ed.), Sutton Publishing, Gloucestershire, ISBN 978-0-7509-2355-2; A guided tour of the history and geography of the Park, written by one of the founder members of the Bletchley Park Trust. Gannon, Paul (2006). Colossus: Bletchley Park's Greatest Secret. London ...
Hut 6 was a wartime section of the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, Britain, tasked with the solution of German Army and Air Force Enigma machine cyphers. Hut 8 , by contrast, attacked Naval Enigma.
Hut 3 was a section of the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park during World War II. It retained the name for its functions when it moved into Block D. [1] It produced military intelligence codenamed Ultra [2] from the decrypts of Enigma, Tunny and multiple other sources.
A few months later, by summer 1941, they were both tested on their German language skills and posted to Hut 4 at Bletchley Park, the naval section, as linguists. [5] [6] [11] They were billeted together at the White Horse Inn. [12] At Bletchley, Benning was known as someone with a good sense of humour who liked to play practical jokes. [7]
Hut 7 was a wartime section of the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park tasked with the solution of Japanese naval codes such as JN4, JN11, JN40, and JN-25. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The hut was headed by Hugh Foss who reported to Frank Birch , the head of Bletchley's Naval section.