Not trying to kill Adolf... that was a good call. AH did more damage than almost one hundred secret weapons....
don't forget SIGSALY, the "real time" telephone system which allowed FDR and Churchill to converse over the "phone" without fear of being overheard or de-coded. It was an AT&T/Bell Telephone invention (I think) which used a complicated set of disks and such to "cloak" the voices. I'll look it up again, I used to have it in a favorites link someplace. Found it! The SIGSALY story. See: http://www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologi...tory/publications/sigsaly_start_digital.shtml
Most people think the British broke the Enigma code, but in fact they were the LAST to. The first were Polish mathematicians in late 1939, but the Germans managed to update the code soon afterward. The British were the last ones to break it and force the Germans to give it up all together.
link added.. Ahoy - Mac's Web Log - Loss of HMT Lancastria at St Nazaire on the 17th. of June 1940. One of Britain's worst Maritime Disasters
Very true. The Germans offered the Poles to the French and British before the war, and they were both rejected. The Poles accepted the offer, however, and the enigma was actually broken in the first days of the war by polish partisans. The British got the info from the Poles after the war began, and from then on at Bletchley Park they worked on cracking the later (improved) versions of the Enigma's code system. So although the British did most of the work, they wouldn't have been able to do any of it if it hadn't been for the Poles.