Re: 'BOMBE-Rebuild' article & photos in Mail on Sunday
John Harper <bombe-oQW5sZKyLSBA672l+npqE7mpYI/[email protected]>
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Dear Fernandes May I suggest that this WEB site be read with caution. If the author spells Bombe without the 'e' on the end and shows a picture of an American Navy Bombe when the text relates to a British Bombe then there might be other serious technical errors. Regards >I hope you find some information at >http://www.mlb.co.jp/linux/science/genigma/enigma-referat/node6.html > >Yours, > >Fernandes Almeida > >Bill Ridgeway escreveu: >> The article states there were 210 Bombes. Is this figure correct and >>is there a list of their locations please? >> >> Bill Ridgeway >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Postranecky" >><mp-/[email protected]> >> To: <BLETCHLEYPARK-0lvw86wZMd/[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 7:58 PM >> Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] [BPARK] 'BOMBE-Rebuild' article & photos >>in Mail on Sunday >> >> >>> 29th March 2009 >>> >>> The Wider View : >>> Nazi codebreaker which shortened the Second World War by two years >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> By Mail On Sunday Reporter >>> >>> The rows of silver dials and tangle of scarlet wires look more like a >>> telephone exchange. >>> >>> But this is the inside of the Turing Bombe, the part-electronic, >>> part-mechanical code-breaking machine and forerunner of the modern >>> computer, which cracked 3,000 messages a day sent on Nazi Enigma >>>machines >>> during the Second World War. >>> >>> There were 210 such bookcase-like Bombes that gave Britain advance >>>warning >>> of Hitler's plans and shortened the conflict by two years..../snip/ >>> >>> >>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1165535/ >>> The-Wider-View-Nazi-codebreaker-shortened-Second-World-War-years.html >>> >>> >>>http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/03/28/article-1165535-041C8EA90000 >>>05DC-759_634x418_popup.jpg >>> >>> >>>http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/03/28/article-1165535-0412A5EA0000 >>>05DC-1_634x377_popup.jpg >>> >>> >>>http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/03/28/article-1165535-0412A7620000 >>>05DC-903_634x425_popup.jpg >>> >>> >>>http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/03/28/article-1165535-041C7D350000 >>>05DC-708_634x448_popup.jpg >>> >>> >> > -- John Harper Project Manager Bombe Rebuild Project