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March Rotary Club Visit Bletchley Park.

Mon, Jun 25th 2012 at 12:00 am -

Bletchley Park


On Monday 25th June, many Members of the Rotary Club of March, together with friends, and Rotarians from Wisbech, spent a very enjoyable day visiting the secret WW.2. code breaking establishment at Bletchley Park.

On arrival we were treated to coffee and biscuits, in Hut 4, while our guide for the day Peter Jarvis, explained the purpose of the, what was in the war years, a top secret Government Establishment. As many as 7000 people were dedicated to the actual code breaking and another five thousand ancillary staff.

Peter told us that the use of codes went back to the time of Julius Caesar, and brought us though ever more complex cyphers, up to 1939. Most people now are aware of what is known as the Enigma Machine. In effect, a portable typewriter, that could be programmed, and capable of encrypting a message, into any one of several trillion variations, making it, in the eyes of the German Military, secure and unbreakable by the then standards. Every year it was improved. This had been the system since the early 1920

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