[GreenKeys] How Bletchley Park's early computers helped to plan D-Day 75 years ago

Craig Sawyers c.sawyers at tech-enterprise.com
Mon Jun 3 12:48:51 EDT 2019


> "New archive research has revealed how intercepted German high command messages decoded by
> the Colossus codebreaking machine at Bletchley Park confirmed that the deception operation had
> successfully fooled the enemy about the Allies landing plans and provided many more insights that
> would be vital for the success of the Allied invasion.  etc "
>
> Sam

The IET is several decades behind the times. It has long been known that the ruse that the Allies 
would attack the Pas de Calais had worked through Colossus breaking the code from Generalfeldmarschall 
Kesselring's SZ42 transmissions to Hitler's bunker.

I was lucky that a decade or so ago to restore Kesselring's SZ42 to full functionality. It was when I 
discovered the deep historical significance of the machine, the hairs on the back of my neck came up.

Craig




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