Re: Dayton Codebreakers

It's quite simple really. The Enigma the cook grabbed off U571 after he 
has blown the German Sub out of the water (even though the levers were 
in German) was given by Hollywood to Dayton with an option for a 
screenplay. Because there was a time limit clause and Bletchley Park 
was closed for the winter,  the Special Effects people created the 
Bombe because the Enigma was too small to fill a room and did not have 
a counter clicking down to zero. They called it a Bombe because they 
saw them every day going off in Iraq, and that publicity was good for 
the movie. They were hopping mad at the Brits too for they wanted their 
guy to be homosexual, but  the Brits stole their idea with Turing.   
It's that Vision thing

Merry Christmas to all and keep the information flowing.

Alan Simpson

On Dec 21, 2005, at 8:19 AM, Geoff Sullivan wrote:

> David Hamer <dhhamer@...> writes:
>
>>
>> All...
>>
>> A newly released DVD tells the story of the 'Dayton Codebreakers',
>> the team led by Joseph Desch that built the 4-wheel American
>> Bombe.
>>
>> For details see <http://www.daytoncodebreakers.org/> Potential
>> purchasers outside of the US should make sure that DVD players
>> are compatible.
>>
>> David Hamer
>>
>>
>
> Finally found the way through the link to the DVD. A synopsis from the 
> website
> is reproduced below, is someone trying to 'adjust' history again?
> Geoff
>
>
> <Synopsis>
> One thousand, one hundred sixty American ships carrying supplies 
> across the
> Atlantic to Britain were sunk in 1942, torpedoed by German 
> submarines-- U-Boats-
> -which relied upon secret underwater radio communications. The German 
> Navy used
> a coding machine called Enigma to keep its maneuvers out of the 
> Allies' reach.
> The British had cracked an earlier Enigma device but not this one. The 
> US Navy,
> angry at failures in the British codebreaking operations at Bletchley 
> Park,
> decided to take these affairs into their own hands. Thy came to Joe 
> Desch, a
> self-educated man known for his innovative work on 
> thyratrons--miniature quick-
> firing tubes--at the National Cash Register Company in Dayton, Ohio. 
> Desch, a
> civilian of German descent, was under surveillance himself even as he 
> worked.
> Desch and his team countered the Enigma with an advanced version of 
> the British
> Bombe, a machine that would shorten the war, thereby saving the lives 
> of
> combatants on all sides. But the pressure on Desch as he worked on 
> this top
> secret mission, equal in secrecy to the Manhattan Project, would take 
> its toll.
> He struggled with the moral consequences of his work--the deaths of 
> thousands
> of young men.
> </Synopsis>
>