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Follow @bletchleypark During 75th Anniversary of D-Day

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  1. InTheLight

    InTheLight Well-Known Member
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    Follow the D-Day landings in real time on 6 June 2019

    To coincide with the 75th anniversary of D-Day, this Thursday 6 June 2019, Bletchley Park will be live tweeting minute by minute, in real time 75 years to the day, decrypted German Naval Enigma messages intercepted on site during the 6 June 1944 operation.

    Starting from 23.58 GMT on 5 June, when German naval units were put on alert, to the following night by which time 156,000 Allied troops had landed by sea and air, the messages reveal how the Germans slowly realised that the Allied invasion in the West had begun. The Western Allies had landed in Normandy and not Calais as the Germans had been led to believe.

    The 182 messages will be posted on the Bletchley Park twitter account @bletchleypark starting at 00.58 (GMT+1) and ending at 23.38 (GMT+1) – the times they would have originally been intercepted on 6 June 1944.



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    #1 InTheLight, Jun 5, 2019
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    For those of you wondering, Bletchley Park was the intel center in Buckinghamshire, Britain, during WW2. it was originally the home of British financier & politicial Sir Herbert Samuel Leon, built in 1883. The mansion & several surrounding huts was the "nerve center" for British & Allied intel during the war, the operation being a closely-guarded secret.

    The grounds are now open to the public, & receives hundreds of thousands of visitors per year. it's maintained in the state it was in during the war.
     
    #2 robycop3, Jun 9, 2019
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