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19 unusual facts about Bletchley Park


Action This Day

Action this day (memo), A 1941 memo by Winston Churchill regarding staffing issues at Bletchley Park.

Alfred Friendly

While in the military he was involved in cryptography and intelligence operations, finally becoming the second in command at Bletchley Park, and the highest ranking American officer there.

Arlington Hall

During the War, Arlington Hall was in many respects similar to Bletchley Park in England, only one of two primary cryptography operations in Washington (the other was the Naval Communications Annex, also housed in a commandeered private girls' school).

Bedford OB

The vehicles were all on display outside the Vauxhall Museum before making a road run to Bletchley Park.

Brian Tovey

He was thus the first GCHQ director not to have worked at Bletchley Park.

C. E. Wynn-Williams

The one using the Lorenz SZ 40/42, code-named Tunny at the Government Code & Cypher School at Bletchley Park, was used for high-level traffic between German High Command and field commanders.

Dorothy Hyson

She worked at the secret codebreaking establishment Bletchley Park during World War II, and though married to Robert Douglas was visited there by her (later) second husband Anthony Quayle.

Edwin C. May

His technical expertise is well respected, and he has given presentations at the famous World War II site Bletchley Park (UK), Harvard University, the Universities of California at Los Angeles and at Davis, Stanford University, the University of Edinburgh, Trinity College Cambridge, Eötvös Loránd University, the University of Stockholm, Imperial College London and others.

Foyle's War

Later in the seventh series, Sam has a new love interest, Adam Wainwright, played by Max Brown, a former Bletchley Park codebreaker who proposes to her in that series' final episode.

G. Blakemore Evans

During World War II, Evans served at Bletchley Park in England, a centre of Allied spying and decoding.

Good–Turing frequency estimation

Good–Turing frequency estimation was developed by Alan Turing and his assistant I. J. Good as part of their efforts at Bletchley Park to crack German ciphers for the Enigma machine during World War II.

Martin Horwood

Horwood is the son of Don Horwood (1920–2004) and his wife Nina (born 1924), both formerly officers of GCHQ and before that of its wartime predecessor at Bletchley Park.

PopCo

The novel has been compared to Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, with similarities including a buried treasure subplot and flashbacks to Bletchley Park.

Roy Jenkins

During the Second World War, Jenkins served with the Royal Artillery and then at Bletchley Park, reaching the rank of captain.

Ruth Tringham

Born on 14 October 1940 in Bedfordshire, England near Bletchley Park, she was the middle sibling with two older brothers and a younger brother and sister.

Sam460ex

The Sam460ex made its debut at the Vintage Computer Festival at Bletchley Park in the UK on the 19th June 2010, where it was demonstrated to the public running AmigaOS 4.1 along with the Timberwolf web browser, a port of the Mozilla Firefox for the AmigaOS 4.

Station X

Station X (TV documentary), the 1999 UK TV documentary about code-breaking at Bletchley Park

Sullins College

Sometimes in the thirties, Martin also opened a subsidiary institution, Arlington Hall, in the Virginia outskirts of Washington, D.C. During World War II, Arlington Hall was closed, and the facilities came under the control of the government, which operated it as an American Bletchley Park—a super secret facility where enemy radio messages were carefully decoded.

The Key to Rebecca

To have it as a mnemonic "key" would have required a different method for the book's climax, either involving a "Bletchley Park" type codebreaker trick (some early "computer" perhaps) or by Vandam pressuring Wolff to reveal it (unlikely, given the obstinate history of the Nazi-Bedouin character).


1943 BRUSA Agreement

Colonel Alfred McCormack of the Special Branch of Military Intelligence Service, Colonel Telford Taylor of Military Intelligence, and Lieutenant Colonel William Friedman came to Bletchley Park, the Government Code and Cypher School Headquarters in England in April 1943.

Angus Wilson

During World War II, he worked in the Naval section Hut 8 at the code-breaking establishment, Bletchley Park, translating Italian Naval codes.

Beaumanor Hall

The park became a secret listening station where encrypted enemy signals (Morse code) were intercepted and sent to the famous Station X at Bletchley Park (by motorbike everyday) for decoding.

F. W. Winterbotham

Peter Calvocoressi was head of the Air Section at Bletchley Park that translated and analysed all deciphered Luftwaffe messages.

German weather ship Lauenburg

The British cryptologist Harry Hinsley, then working at Bletchley Park realised at the end of April 1941 that the German weather ships, usually isolated and unprotected trawlers, were using the same Enigma code books as were being used on the heavily armed U Boats.

Henri Braquenié

On December 3–7, 1939, Braquenié accompanied the chief of the Polish cryptologic team, Lt. Col. Gwido Langer, to London and Bletchley Park.

James Ramsay Montagu Butler

In World War II, Butler returned to military service in the Army Intelligence Corps, recruiting many former students including Bernard Willson to work on code breaking at Bletchley Park.

Jeremy Paxman

Paxman became a focus of media attention in his own right in October 2000 when an Enigma machine, which had been stolen from Bletchley Park Museum, was inexplicably sent to him in the post.

Mary Rees

Her father David Rees was also a distinguished mathematician, who worked on Enigma in Hut 6 at Bletchley Park.

Newmanry

The Newmanry was a section at Bletchley Park, the British codebreaking station during World War II.

Solomon Kullback

He learned at Bletchley Park that the British were producing intelligence of high quality by exploiting the Enigma machine.

Testery

The Testery was a section at Bletchley Park, the British codebreaking station during World War II.

Tony Fasson

The codebooks that Fasson, Grazier, and Brown retrieved were immensely valuable to the code-breakers at Bletchley Park, who had been unable to read U-boat Enigma for nine months.