The Role of Bletchley Park for the Allies
1. The organisation at Bletchley Park and the way in which its people
worked was a key factor to its efficiency and success. It enabled them
to decipher and then retransmit the obtained information received from
the enemy to intelligence offices in London in the shortest amount of
time possible, with complete co-ordination.
The recruitment process was concealed. People targeted for recruitment
would be taken away secretly and made to sign a form called the
Official Secrets Act, swearing that they would not tell anyone of
their work in Bletchley (this was to prevent the enemy finding out
about Bletchley's establishment ).
They recruited people using the 'old boy network', usually from their
old school or university. Chess and crossword competitions were also
held, and winners asked to work at Bletchley. The people chosen
consisted of great mathmaticians, linguists, Personel from the armed
forces, translators and so forth. Some, such as Alan Turing were
geniuses.
The people selected were placed in units at Bletchley Park, which were
split up into different huts. The shifts in these huts were 3 x 8
hours. The workers had to keep complete secrecy, and there was no
discussion about work outside of the huts. Inside the huts information
was given on a 'need to know' basis.
The huts were situated in different blocks. Huts 3, 4, 6 and 8 were
the most important. Huts 3 and 6 dealt with traffic (encrypted German
messages intercepted) from the Army and Airforce, whilst Huts 4 and 8
dealt with the Navy. Hut 6 was responsible for deciphering Enigma
messages. They were received in an Intercep...
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...n England. Britain could even have
gone into famine and been forced to surrender.
There would have been greater losses of men in North Africa, Italy and
Sicily and Greece, which would have meant there would have been less
men to stage the invasion of Europe. They would then also have no idea
where enemy forces were positioned and more concentrated and when they
were going to attack during this invasion. The Allies would not know
the vulnerable positions in the German defences meaning they would
have advanced more slowly and lost more men. The invasion may have
even failed completely, which could have affected the final outcome of
the war.
Bletchley Park became a guiding and important asset to the allies
throughout the war. Without it the outcome of the war, and therefore
our lives, may have been very different.
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