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Discussion in 'WWII General' started by sniper1946, Oct 1, 2009.

  1. sniper1946

    sniper1946 Expert

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    well I'll look there urqh,no link?;)
     
  2. urqh

    urqh Tea drinking surrender monkey

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    cant do links on the old phone..well it can..i cant..
     
  3. Kai-Petri

    Kai-Petri Kenraali

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    Not trying to kill Adolf... that was a good call. AH did more damage than almost one hundred secret weapons....
     
  4. sniper1946

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    good posts thanks ..
     
  5. brndirt1

    brndirt1 Saddle Tramp

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    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
     
  6. MastahCheef117

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    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.
     
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    Hufflepuff Semi-Frightening Mountain Goat

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    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.
     
  9. urqh

    urqh Tea drinking surrender monkey

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    most folk dont think that at all. the brits have always acknowledged the polish enigma story.
     
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    The greatest war time secret of WW2 can now be revealed.WW2 was caused by
    Vera Lynn,s agent.
     

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