"One of the last remaining female Bletchley Park code-breakers who helped crack Nazi intelligence to secure the success of the D-Day landings has died aged 94. Margaret Kelly was only 18 when in 1944 she was posted to the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, during the Second World War. She joined a top secret Nazi code-breaking mission and became one of a team of women known as Wrens. The Wrens operated Colossus - the world’s first computer - and toiled around the clock operating the code-cracking devices that helped to shorten World War II. The invaluable work deciphering coded messages between Hitler and his high command saved thousands of lives and contributed to the Allies' victory. The grandmother-of-33 died peacefully at her family farm in Wales at the weekend. Her family said she died from natural causes. Margaret was part of a team that cracked the German Lorenz code, which provided 'critical information' in the lead-up to D-Day. " www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9171333/One-surviving-female-Bletchley-Park-heroes-dies-aged-94.html
We're learning more and more about the unspoken work done at Bletchley. The fact that so many young women worked so hard should be more celebrated. Ms. Kelly and others like her were heroes.
And not just military force but enigma secrets opened by these people. The Germans did not believe the code could be broken. I know about the Allied losses but without this help the losses would have been a lot bigger;their work saved thousands of lives. And truly they never got any public credit they would have deserved. It was hush-hush until the 70's.
