Bletchley Park


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Bletchley Park

(ˈblɛtʃlɪ)
n
1. (Placename) the Buckinghamshire estate which was the centre of British code-breaking operations during World War II
2. (Military) the Buckinghamshire estate which was the centre of British code-breaking operations during World War II
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014


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Scores of former staff were reunited atBletchley Park yesterday where they had helped crack German codes to unravel Nazi intelligence.
She was just 21 when she was recruited from Aberdeen University to join the crucial work being done atBletchley Park.
After the end of the war with Germany, Helene stayed on atBletchley Park for a short while to help write the official history of Hut 6's work, which was only made publicly available at the National Archives in 2006.
Turing won an OBE for his work atBletchley Park, which cracked the Nazi Enigma code.
Maude Hughes from Rhyl, who recently died at the age of 94, was a member of the team atBletchley Park who cracked the Nazis' Enigma codes during the war.
THERESA May has paid tribute to formerBletchley Park codebreaker Baroness Trumpington after her death at the age of 96.
In fact, Shropshire-born Betty, who was one of the team of code-breakers atBletchley Park was prevented by the Official Secrets Act from talking about her work for THREE DECADES.
Margaret Fick, from Stockton, was a secret operative at the famousBletchley Park - where she helped crack intercepted German messages.
But nothing he watched then could ever compare with what he witnessed on December 27, 1941, when, as a 37-year-old naval intelligence officer attached to theBletchley Park codebreaking centre, he evaded bullets fired at him by German snipers while he clambered on board one of their armed trawlers beached on Vagsoy Island, off the coast of Norway, so that he could seize her Enigma codebooks.
Insight into codes from Bletchley ALMONDBURY Community School received a visit from the outreach team atBletchley Park, once the top-secret home of the World War Two code breakers.

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