Virtual Wartime Bletchley Park by Tony Sale | Back to Index | |
![]() Codes and Ciphers |
Explore Wartime Bletchley Park |
The Enigma MachineYou might wish to revise your knowledge of the Enigma Machine before proceeding
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![]() The Enigma Machine used by the Axis forces. |
The Polish code breakersHere is how the young Polish mathematicians broke the unbreakable Enigma and gave the Allies a priceless giftPolscy Kryptolodzy
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![]() Marian Rejewski the great Polish code breaker |
In September 1938, the Government Codes & Ciphers School comes to Bletchley Park to test its suitability in case of WarFollow a an exploration of Bletchley Park in 1938 |
![]() Captain Ridley's shooting Party! |
The first breaks into Enigma. In August 1939, the Government Codes & Ciphers School comes back to Bletchley Park for real just before the outbreak of WarFind out how Dilly Knox and "his Girls" broke Enigma with the help of the gift from the Poles. |
![]() Dilly Knox. |
Alan Turing and his BombeTuring's crucial ideas for breaking Enigma.Explore the Bombe in Action See how menus were constructed and how a menu ran on the Bombe.. For the "Anoraks" (Technically Skilled Superior Individuals!) here is a high speed Bombe Simulator which enables real code breaking to be done. | ![]() Alan Turing |
Early expansion at Bletchley ParkSee how Bletchley Park has already started to grow by December 1940 to meet the needs of war |
![]() The first Hut 3 |
Getting the Park organisedGordon Welchman sees the need for an organisational structure to exploit Enigma breaks. |
![]() Gordon Welchman |
Breaking German Naval EnigmaTuring's work in breaking Naval Enigma . |
![]() Admiral Doenitz |
Information Flow through Bletchley ParkBy 1944 Bletchley Park had evolved into a massive well oiled machine for producing vital intelligence to help the Allied war effort follow a German Enigma message through all the processes to break it, decipher it and deliver its intelligence content to the Allied field Commanders. |
![]() Part of the Information flow Diagram |
Catching a Fish!The race to break the Hitler's messages . |
![]() The Lorenz Cipher Machine |
The history of UK code breaking and the Birth of SIGINTSignals Intelligence at last becomes a cohesive whole under Travis's guidance. |
![]() Sir Edward Travis |
This page was originally created by the late Tony Sale the original curator of the Bletchley Park Museum |