Re: Spot the deliberate mistake
David Hamer <[email protected]>
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Geoff... The story is told in, of course, much more detail in "The Secret in Building 26" by Jim DeBrosse and Colin Burke, Random House 2004. ISBN 0-375-50807-4. I just checked <http://www.amazon.co.uk/> and it appears to be available in the UK. David Hamer At 08:59 4/29/05, Geoff Sullivan wrote: >No one has yet... >I presume the black out referred to below was the introduction of M4. This was in February 1942. Re-entry to the German Naval codes must have been mainly due to the heroic actions of Fasson and Grazier on October 30 1942, rather than the USA 4-wheel Bombes. I think Shark was mostly read after the end of 1942. >American journalists and script writers rarely get Enigma history correct... > >cheers, > >geoff > > > >Codebreakers' next task is preservation >Saving the Dayton building that turned the tide of WWII >By Jim DeBrosse > >Dayton Daily News >DAYTON - During World War II, Britain and America worked closely togethe= >r to break the German Enigma codes, an effort that saved millions of live= >s by shortening the bloody conflict in Europe by two years, some experts = > ><SNIPPED> > >Desch - the father of Debbie Desch Anderson - is credited with designing = >an American version of Britain's Enigma-busting Bombe that enabled the al= >lies to re-enter the German naval code in 1943 after Bletchley Park had b= >een blacked out for months. > ><SNIPPED> *************************************************** David Hamer [email protected] ***************************************************