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1.1K views · 62 reactions | In early February 1942, Edward Travis took over from Alastair Denniston as the operational head of Bletchley Park. Here's a view of what Denniston's office may have looked like as he left it behind 82 years ago. | Bletchley Park | Facebook

Just before the Second World War started, the Government Code and Cipher School needed a safe, secret place away from London, so they relocated to Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire. Simple huts were built on the grounds and it was in Hut 8 that mathematician Alan Turing’s Bombe machine played a key role in cracking the Enigma code. The incredible efforts of thousands of people at Bletchley, 3/4 of them women, helped shorten the war by an estimated 2 to 4 years, saving countless lives in the proc

4.2K views · 57 reactions | Shrouded in secrecy codebreakers at the Bletchley Park country estate in the heart of England routinely decoded enemy messages, which gave the Allied powers significant advantage against the Germans, Italians and the Japanese during WWII. | CGTNEurope | Facebook