Canada Ping!
Canada Ping!
Canadian troops have been underappreciated for their contributions to many wars.
Interesting story. Thanks for posting.
Is “History TV” the same as the “History Channel?” Wondering if we will be able to access the program...
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The Dieppe Raid raid took place August 19,1942, so I suppose the “news” of the raid will shortly be forthcoming in your NYT-70 series.
I always understood the purpose of the Dieppe Raid was to steal some German Radar equipment and that this was accomplished. Churchill also wanted to use the Raid to serve as an example to the USA of what a possible invasion of Western Europe would look like.
I don't get it. So if they were able to steal the code books and the code machine, the Germans would know it and change both.
Thank you for posting! Going to check out the Global website to see if they make the program available.
I don’t recall the book, but I recall reading this revelation 25 years ago, about the time an amount of classified WWII info was released. At this time, it became known that the first computers were built to decrypt bits of the Enigma code that the captured machines couldn’t fully decrypt, rather than solving naval gunnery computations, which was the cover story.
The Polish underground also delivered an Enigma machine to Britain, but I don’t recall if that happened before or after Dieppe. And one came off a captured U-Boat at one point during the war.
The trick was to get the book with the daily wheel settings for the machine. Knowing how the machines worked was a help, but without the daily settings book, the final job was left to the big, hot, clacking vacuum tube computers at Bletchley Park.