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Bletchley Park
Bletchley Park the Buckinghamshire, England, center of operations for the British Foreign Office's Government Code and Cypher School. Beginning in 1939, a staff of several thousand mathematicians, engineers, clerks, and others secretly worked at Bletchley Park to decipher encoded communications of German and other enemy forces. The first decryptions of the German “Enigma” encryption device were produced in the summer of 1940, and by January 1941 information about German plans for attacking Greece played a significant part in British tactics. By 1944 a worldwide intelligence network was in place to intercept and decode messages and to distribute the information to operational theater commanders and back to Bletchley Park for an overview of the war. In addition to contributing to the war effort, devices and ideas developed at Bletchley Park led to the world's first electronic computers.
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"Bletchley Park." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Bletchley Park." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O63-BletchleyPark.html "Bletchley Park." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O63-BletchleyPark.html |
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Bletchley Park
Bletchley Park near Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, during the Second World War the centre of British codebreaking activity, where the Enigma code was broken, and the computer Colossus used.
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ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Bletchley Park." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Bletchley Park." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-BletchleyPark.html ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Bletchley Park." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-BletchleyPark.html |
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