THG visit to Bletchley Park
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Bletchley Park hosted a THG swapmeet in hut 14 which had once been
home to the DTN-Defence Teleprinter Network, a very important part of the
communications to the site.
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Ken Bennett arrived in a green Post Office Telephones 5cwt Anglia van, serial
number U230840, Telephone Manager, Portsmouth, which had been beautifully
restored and was complete with authentic signwriting and reproduction banner
adverts from the late Sixties; 'Be a Girofirst' National Giro and 'It's so
cheap to phone your friends after six and at weekends.'
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Our tour guide, John Pether recounted to us the early history of the Mansion,
and a summary of the events leading up to the many code breaking
activities on the site during the war. He briefly explained how
each machine was used to help the mathematicians/crypto-analysists guess
the wheel settings and thence decode the majority of the war messages. The
information from each hut played a vital part in the processes, but
secrecy meant that very few people were allowed to know the work of
other sections within the Park. The success of Bletchey was the combination
of all the seemingly insignificant messages to form a coherent whole, which
was of course, the Ultra achievement. [BP was known as Winston
Churchill's Ultra Secret]
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