Frederick William Winterbotham Cbe

The Ultra Secret

Guarding the Secrets That Won the Second World War. Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 200 Seiten
ISBN 1036135292
EAN 9781036135294
Veröffentlicht 30. Oktober 2025
Verlag/Hersteller Pen & Sword Books
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Beschreibung

In April 1940, when British cryptographers at Bletchley Park decrypted some German air force messages, Group Captain Frederick Winterbotham recognized the potential of such intelligence and established a secure system to handle it.

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Born on 16 April 1897, FREDERICK WILLIAM WINTERBOTHAM was educated at Oxford University. In the First World War he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, but was shot down over the Western Front in 1917, spending the rest of the war in captivity. Early in 1930, Winterbotham joined the Air Staff and was officially assigned a role as a liaison officer; unofficially he served in the Air Department of the British Secret Service. On the outbreak of the Second World War, he established a new organisation for the translation, distribution and security of Ultra at Bletchley Park. In 1943 he was awarded the CBE, and attained the rank of Group Captain. He died of natural causes on 28 January 1990, aged 92.