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Luftwaffe

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

5Records
1940Date range
5Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1940

John Jeffreys23 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

Dilly Knox23 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

Alan Mathison Turing23 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

Peter Twin23 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

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill7 September 1940

London · Warfare / World War, 2nd

The Luftwaffe begin to systematically bomb London, the blitz

Names involved

Alan Mathison TuringDilly KnoxJohn JeffreysPeter TwinWinston Leonard Spencer Churchill

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