{"id":25367,"date":"2017-04-25T08:11:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T12:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=25367"},"modified":"2017-04-25T08:11:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T12:11:49","slug":"australian-code-breakers-in-world-war-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/australian-code-breakers-in-world-war-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian code breakers in World War II"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Ian P, for sharing the following from the radio program,\u00a0ABC Overnights<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The crucial role of Australian code breakers in World War 2<\/h2>\n

Thanks to the recent film, The Imitation Game, you may be familiar with the story of how British intelligence, led by mathematician Alan Turing, cracked Nazi codes during WW2. Did you know there were also two secret organisations in Australia working to break Japan’s military codes?<\/p>\n

These were staffed with brilliant cryptographers, including some who had studied mathematics and the classics, and others who had lived or grown up in Japan. By patiently and carefully unravelling the codes in Japanese signals, their intelligence played a crucial role in the battles of Midway and the Coral Sea, as well as the push into the Philippines.<\/p>\n

Trevor Chappell interviews Craig Collie, author of the book Code Breakers – Inside the Shadow world of Signals Intelligence in Australia’s two Bletchley Parks.<\/p>\n

Duration: 36min 36sec
\nBroadcast: Mon 10 Apr 2017, 1:00am
\nPublished: Mon 10 Apr 2017, 4:43pm<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Listen to the full program\/interview via the embedded player below:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/mpegmedia.abc.net.au\/radio\/local_melbourne\/audio\/201704\/ovn-2017-04-10-code-breakers.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Click here to download the MP3 <\/a>or click here<\/a> to listen on the ABC website.<\/p>\n

I’ve also noted that you can pre-order Code Breakers – Inside the Shadow world of Signals Intelligence in Australia’s two Bletchley Parks<\/strong><\/em><\/a> at Amazon.com. There is no expected delivery time yet, however.<\/p>\n

Code Breakers<\/em> is available directly from the publisher in Australia–click here to view<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ian P, for sharing the following from the radio program,\u00a0ABC Overnights: The crucial role of Australian code breakers in World War 2 Thanks to the recent film, The Imitation Game, you may be familiar with the story of how British intelligence, led by mathematician Alan Turing, cracked Nazi codes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,305,288],"tags":[6146,887,6143,6145,6147,6144,4091,445,676,1301],"class_list":["post-25367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","tag-abc-overnights","tag-australia","tag-australia-wwii","tag-australian-radio-history","tag-craig-collie","tag-ian-p","tag-radio-history","tag-spy-numbers","tag-wwii","tag-wwii-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-6B9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25375,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/the-raaf-no-4-wireless-unit-never-to-march-never-to-be-mentioned\/","url_meta":{"origin":25367,"position":0},"title":"The RAAF No. 4 Wireless Unit: Never to march, never to be mentioned","author":"Thomas","date":"April 26, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Neil Bolitho, who shares the following story\u00a0in reply to our post yesterday Australian Codebreakers in WWII. 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