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John Jeffreys Biography

Historical biography and chronological timeline for John Jeffreys, based on 2 World History Database records associated with Great Britain.

2 records1940–19402 events0 places

Chronological biography

1940

Enigma Machine23 January 1940
Warfare / World War, 2nd

The first operational break into Enigma when the team working under Dilly Knox, with the mathematicians John Jeffreys, Peter Twinn and Alan Turing, unravelled the German Army administrative key that became known at Bletchley Park as The Green, encouraged by this success, the codebreakers later crack the Red key used by the Luftwaffe

Luftwaffe23 January 1940
Warfare / World War, 2nd

The first operational break into Enigma when the team working under Dilly Knox, with the mathematicians John Jeffreys, Peter Twinn and Alan Turing, unravelled the German Army administrative key that became known at Bletchley Park as The Green, encouraged by this success, the codebreakers later crack the Red key used by the Luftwaffe

Record provenance

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