{"id":17887,"date":"2016-03-22T17:11:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T21:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=17887"},"modified":"2018-11-11T07:44:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T11:44:21","slug":"wwii-sussex-home-provided-bletchley-park-with-intercepts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/wwii-sussex-home-provided-bletchley-park-with-intercepts\/","title":{"rendered":"WWII: Sussex home provided Bletchley Park with intercepts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SWLingPost-Numbers1\"<\/a>(Source: Eastbourne Herald<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Much has been written about Bletchley Park and the decoding of German Enigma signals. However, the code breakers first needed the raw material \u2013 transcripts of enemy messages.<\/em><\/p>\n

The British Y Service was the \u2018ears\u2019 of Bletchley Park and without this, code breaking was impossible. There were several departments under the control of MI-8. The RAF, Army, Navy, Metropolitan Police, Post Office and Foreign Office had interceptors and American units also contributed. Haystoun House in Church Street, Willingdon \u2013 today flats and previously an old people\u2019s home \u2013 was the base of the American 129th Signal Radio Intelligence Company. In the 1940s it stood alone with space for the so-called \u2018aerial farm\u2019 \u2013 40 aerials in the form of inverted L\u2019s, 20 on each side of the house.<\/em><\/p>\n

These were fed to a \u2018set room\u2019 that could cater for 42 receivers. Tables around walls had partitions to separate operating positions. Operators kept four-hour watches, known as \u2018tricks\u2019 and searchers tuned over a segment of the short wave spectrum listening for any new stations that might pop up. Experienced operators were able to recognise the Morse styles \u2013 the so-called \u2018fists\u2019 – of individual German signallers. Message pads were ferried by dispatch rider to London. Operators were trained at Camp Crowder in Missouri where they learnt to copy high-speed Morse onto a typewriter. However, a pencil and message pad proved easier because receivers drifted off frequency and one hand was needed to re-tune. The daily schedule was 15 sets at night and 25 during the day.[…]<\/em><\/p>\n

Continue reading: http:\/\/www.eastbourneherald.co.uk\/news\/nostalgia\/nostalgia-willingdon-home-was-the-sussex-bletchley-park-1-7269441#ixzz43fTvD8hO<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: Eastbourne Herald) Much has been written about Bletchley Park and the decoding of German Enigma signals. However, the code breakers first needed the raw material \u2013 transcripts of enemy messages. The British Y Service was the \u2018ears\u2019 of Bletchley Park and without this, code breaking was impossible. 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