Re: Dayton Codebreakers

Now I understand.


Harry Joseph
NYC

>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>
>>

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