[QuadList] Code breakers and Quad VT Engineers visit Bletchley Park... and see a piece of WWII cypher history

[Ted Langdell]

You can post directly to the list, George.  It'll go through if you don't have a bunch of other recipients

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On Sep 20, 2011, at 5:52 PM, george keller <georgenann at aol.com> wrote:

> Ted,
>  
> Thanks for the re-write, I knew you would get it out to the group.
>  
> Trevor is quite a guy, nice fellow, knowledgeable and of course a ham, was a pleasure being there with he and his lovely XYL Pauline.  Now everyone knows what he looks like.
>  
> I have some other fotos to send from the Bletchley Vetern's reunion which took place a few days earlier, will send them along also if you want to pass them along.
>  
> 73,
>  
> George Keller
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted Langdell <ted at quadvideotapegroup.com>
> To: Quad List <QuadList at quadvideotapegroup.com>
> Sent: Tue, Sep 20, 2011 7:27 pm
> Subject: [QuadList] Code breakers and Quad VT Engineers visit Bletchley Park... and see a piece of WWII cypher history
> 
> QuadList members might remember the WWII "Enigma Machine" that helped the Allies read German messages unbeknownst to the Germans.
> 
> Earlier this month, the opportunity to visit where the code-breaking happened brought QuadList member George Keller and his wife Ann across the Atlantic to London and UK QuadList member Trevor Brown and his wife Pauline down from Leeds in the north east corner of England. 
> 
> They visited Bletchley Park, 50 miles northwest of London, in Buckinghamshire.  Once the home to a wealthy finacial family, it was about to be demolished by a developer... when events change the course of the property's history:
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> http://www.bletchleypark.org/content/hist/early.rhtm
> 
> It was 1938 and the threat of war loomed as Hitler invaded first Austria and then Czechoslovakia. The Government Code and Cypher School, then based in London, needed a safer home where its intelligence work could carry on unhindered by enemy air attacks. At a junction of major road, rail and teleprinter connections to all parts of the country, Bletchley Park was eminently suitable.
> Commanded by Alastair Denniston, the Park was given the cover name Station X, being the tenth of a large number of sites acquired by MI6 for its wartime operations.
> After meticulous preparation and a series of trial runs, the codebreakers arrived in earnest in August 1939. They masqueraded as 'Captain Ridley's Shooting Party' to disguise their true identity. It was to be the first instalment in one of the most remarkable stories of the Second World War.
> 
> Here's George's post and pictures, which got halted in delivery because of too many recipients in the address line.
> 
> Ted
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> Begin forwarded message:
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> Sent: Tue, Sep 20, 2011 3:44 pm
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> Subject: Visit to Bletchley Park
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> Earlier this month, (Sep 5) a group of former CT's got together for a visit to Bletchley Park.  It was great. 
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> A few days before this, (Sep 4) was A Bletchley Veterans Reunion.  There were many of the original Bletchley ladies there and they were great.  We actually had an opportunity to chat with some of them.
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> A few more fotos in later e-mails to to keep the size of the e-mails smaller.
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> 73,
>  
> George Keller
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> 
>  The first foto is of our group:  L-R Me, Mrs. Bachinski, Capt Philip Schick, CTR-1 Fred Hampe, Ann Keller, Capt. Paul Brady, Todd Bachinski (US Embassy, London), Mrs Kay Brady, Pauline and Trevor Brown, (TV Business).
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> 
>  The other fotos are almost self explanatory.
> 0759 is the memorial recently dedicated by HM the Queen and
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>  0762 is an Enigma Machine on loan from Mick Jager.
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> 
> (EOT)
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